“I wouldn’t rule out the dancing wieners on the news site just yet.”
Edmund Sanctis, senior vice president and general manager of NBC Digital Productions, following a demonstration of an animated Oscar Mayer ad on Warner Bros. Online, overheard at an Internet World ’97 forum, 9 December 1997
“Access by kids to the Internet should be like kids breathing clean air.”
Nicholas Negroponte, überpundit and director of MIT’s Media Lab, displaying a deep grasp of contemporary environmental issues, News.com/Reuters, 26 November 1997
“The impact of the Internet has already become so apparent. The other day I was looking for a local soccer schedule. It’s midnight, and who are you going to call?”
Palo Alto City Council member Liz Kniss, taking the more-wired-than-thou message to her soccer mom constituency, The New York Times, 8 December 1997
“Wired Digital is not for sale. Wired magazine is not for sale. Wired Ventures is not for sale.”
Former Wired publisher and editor Louis Rossetto (okay, he’s still chairman), delicately addressing recent rumors, News.com, 4 December 1997
“I was not a competent and capable CEO. I’m still responsible. But it was neglect, not malice.”
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, on his company’s early-’90s meltdown, BusinessWeek, 8 December 1997
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