Author: Matt

“The Internet should emerge as the next mass media. It will be a blurring of the Internet and TV. You’d better be ready for change.”

Bob Herbold, Microsoft’s chief operating officer and heir-non-apparent, speaking about where you damn well better want to go today at the Hambrecht & Quist Technology Conference, Wired News, 27 April 1998

“When George Bush founded Zapata 40 years ago, he was in the cutting edge of technology in the oil-rig business. You can almost relate it to this point in the Internet.”

Avram Glazer, CEO of the company formerly known as Zapata, on how his visionary purchase of the moribund Webzines Word and Charged will power his food-processing concern onto the Internet as “Zap Inc.,” The New York Times, 27 April 1998

“I really think I am not overstating things a bit when I tell you that we’re going to build Silicon City and then, when we’re done, it will be the epicenter of the information age.”

Richard Arns, executive director of the Midwest-boosting Chicago Research and Planning Group, on efforts to make the Second City more than No. 4 in high tech, San Jose Mercury News/Chicago Tribune, 22 April 1998

“Don’t ask me why people out there fix my bugs for me, but people love to do it.”

Jim Barksdale, Netscape CEO, on the success of his company’s Mozilla open-source browser program in getting outsiders to fix errors his coders could never be bothered to correct, TechWeb, 22 April 1998

“At the end of the day, ICC is really a holding company. What’s really important is that they are a publicly traded firm that gives us the capital to grow into other markets.”

Glenn Meyers, founder and CEO of “Internet solutions” company Rare Medium, on its acquisition by ICC Technologies, a maker of humidity control systems, New York Times CyberTimes, 22 April 1998