“Netscape will not become a primary content company. We will not do our own news or share prices.”
Marc Andreessen, Netscape’s cofounder and executive vice president of not much really, missing a perfectly good business opportunity, Yahoo/Reuters, 2 December 1997
“I just find email to be a much easier way to communicate because you don’t have to worry about calling your staff … when they really ought to be devoting their time to a higher priority matter than the one I want to get an answer to.”
US Vice President Al Gore, showing that the games you can play with computers aren’t just shoot-’em-ups, The Washington Post, 29 November 1997
“We’re not going to be a bank. If somebody handed me a certificate that said that I could be the only bank on the Internet, though, I’d be very tempted to be a bank, I have to say.”
Microsoft CEO Bill Gates, setting the financial services industry’s minds at ease, Context magazine, premiere issue
“We have to be able to control what goes into our products. Otherwise, how can we respond to our customers? How can we give good value? How can we add more, more, more, more good stuff at low prices?”
Microsoft veep Steve Ballmer, responding to the Department of Justice’s challenge to his company’s software “integration” practices, Computer Reseller News, 24 November 1997
“This is a capitalist country without capital or capitalists.”
Dominique Strauss-Kahn, France’s minister of economy, finance and industry, on his native country’s fitful encounter with the financial postmodern, Forbes, December 1997
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