Author: Matt

“We’re having to lay off 400 people. In some companies, that takes six months. In Netscape, that takes three weeks.”

Mike Homer, Netscape’s vice president of marketing, on his company’s dispatch in lowering its headcount, San Francisco Examiner, 18 January 1998

“What impresses me most about Ditherati is that it is losing less money than all the public Internet companies combined.”

Andrew Anker, CEO of the company formerly known as HotWired, commenting on Ditherati’s ability to relaunch its site only six months after its first appearance, in a statement made for a Ditherati Communications press release, 19 January 1998

“I don’t even think the Back button gets a 50 percent clickthrough, and that’s the best link around.”

Joey Anuff, cofounder and editor-by-default of Suck, talking about Net navigation and making it all up along the way at Ad:tech West in Los Angeles, Marketing Computers, 15 January 1998

“I like to surf
the Internet turf.
I find so much stuff.
I can’t get enough.
I want to encrypt my Internet mail.
And I should be able to do it without going to jail.”

Jim Bidzos, chief execrable officer of RSA Data Security, getting err, um, down with the funk at his company’s annual security conference, Computer Reseller News, 14 January 1998

“We need a large technical class that is well trained to do work that is mind-numbingly boring.”

Eric Roberts, associate director of Stanford’s computer science program, The New York Times, 13 January 1998

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“The global economy desperately needs all the yuppies it can muster.”

Edward Yardeni, chief economist for the Deutsche Morgan Grenfell investment house, The New York Times, 5 January 1998