“I’d rather have the technology ahead of its time because it costs you twice as much and takes you twice as long to be the second to market.”
Informix Chairman and CEO Phil White, Upside.com, 1 July 1997
Author: Matt
In 2002 I started contributing to Open Source software, and life has just gotten better from there. Co-founder of WordPress, founder Automattic.
GIRL GAMES: NO BUDDHISTS ALLOWED
“Girls think it’s stupid to have to die and start over.”
Purple Moon founder Brenda Laurel, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 July 1997
USUALLY THEY LIKE THEIR BRIDES A BIT LESS EXPERIENCED
“What we do best is distribution and programming. What they do best is content. We’re marrying our core strengths.”
Excite senior vice president Joe Kraus on his company’s recent deal with Ticketmaster, Wired News, 30 June 1997
HIT ‘EM RIGHT IN THE POCKETBOOK, THAT IS
“I think cyberorganizing is getting to be a new era in union organizing. We are finally going to get with the times and realize, Hey, workers are computer literate; the computer age has hit the working class, too.”
Matthew C. Pavesi, an organizer with Local 888 of the United Food and Commercial Workers in Mt. Vernon, New York, New York Times CyberTimes, 30 June 1997
JUST WAIT TILL YOUR FATHER GETS HOME – PLEASE?
“No one wants to return home after work to find a child downloading pornographic material.”
Senator Patty Murray (D.-Wa.), Wired News, 26 June 1997
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