“We were romanced by the entertainment stuff, too. But we underestimated the value of software. And you know there really is something very sexy about creating a product that is useful to people and can help them live their lives better.”
Pete Higgins, VP of Microsoft’s Interactive Media Group, on his division’s turn towards more “practical” infofare, New York Times CyberTimes, 13 October 1997
“There are many, many people who aren’t quite sure where the boundaries are between what kinds of products we build and what kind they build, and frankly, we aren’t either.”
Microsoft honcho Steve Ballmer, laying out Microsoft’s strategic vision, News.com, 9 October 1997
“The law of supply and demand has not been repealed. If labor demand continues to outpace sustainable increases in supply, the question is surely when, not whether, labor costs will escalate more rapidly.”
Federal Reserve Board chairman Alan Greenspan, playing party-pooper to the digerati’s stock rally, Wall Street Journal, 8 October 1997
“You tell Microsoft what they should do. We want this to be tried in the court of public opinion. I can’t just count on the courts. The best way to deliver this message to them is to buy Navigator.”
Scott McNealy, CEO of Sun Microsystems (not Netscape Communications), exhorting the masses to fight the Microsoft threat to Java, News.com, 7 October 1997
“If the Commerce Department recommends going offshore, then the committee will draft legislation to prevent that.”
Quentin Dickerson, a spokesman for Representative Chip Pickering (R-Mississippi), on his boss’s plans to nationalize the domain name system, Wired News, 6 October 1997
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