“I may make more money on the book and the movie than [I made on shares of] TGLO.”
Stephan Paternot, cofounder of the late, unlamented chat site Theglobe.com, on how he finally figured out how to cash in on the Internet, SmartMoney.com, 6 August 2001
“China is still very poor. Without our own operating system we can’t do anything, we’re completely at the mercy of Microsoft.”
Sun Yufang, chairman of Chinese Linux distributor Red Flag Software, Salon.com, 9 August 2001
“Just as we could have rode into the sunset, along came the Internet, and it tripled the significance of the PC.”
Intel chairman Andy Grove, on how the Net disrupted PC veterans’ planned obsolescence, ZDNN, 10 August 2001
“It’s pretty clear that [customers] know what their budgets are now, and what they want to spend it on.”
Loudcloud CEO Ben Horowitz, on discovering that big corporations didn’t want to buy the cow if they could get the milk at a discount, News.com, 13 August 2001
“The financial climate is the worst it’s been in 25 years.”
Salon CEO Michael O’Donnell, claiming that his website’s layoff of 14 employees exceeds the fiscal brutality of the Reagan Recession, the Crash of ’87, the Gulf War, and the 1998 Asian Crisis, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 August 2001
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