“I used to be the ‘boss.’ Then I realized that the real job of a leader is to create robust environments for personal development — good vibes.”
Per Hakkanson, “vibe evolver” at Sweden’s Bonnier Publishing, who notes that “work” isn’t “just” about “producing things,” Fast Company, February/March 1998
“There are squishier levels of transactions in this world than buying things with money. Everything does not have to fit into a double-column bookkeeping system.”
John Perry Barlow, erstwhile Grateful Dead lyricist and digerato-about-town, on why the global economy doesn’t really need anything as boring as money, The Red Herring, March 1998
“Fewer and fewer scientists are really in a position to see the interconnectedness of things. I don’t know what the solution is but I’m delighted somebody is worrying about it and trying to tackle it.”
Robert Park, a physics professor at the University of Maryland, on the government’s effort to help researchers cope with Internet-driven “knowledge storms,” Philadelphia Inquirer, 19 February 1998
“Silicon Valley, Route 128, Silicon Alley, Multimedia Gulch — they aren’t very exciting names. I actually thought Silicon Valley was where women went to get fixed. But because of excellence and working together, Silicon Valley is magical.”
LA Mayor Richard Riordan, showing that deep understanding of the Net that has made his city a leader in … um … Internet … uh … new media … stuff, Wired News, 18 February 1998
“The money was largely spent for software development, and the software was a complex product developed in a complex way.”
David Carlick, erstwhile president of PowerAgent — an online advertising startup most noted for contracting out its software development and burning through $20 million in venture capital and loans with no product to show for its troubles — on how hard it was to spend that wad of cash, San Jose Mercury News, 15 February 1998
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