Author: Matt

“Right now in Japan the No. 1 and No. 2 hottest-selling Windows-based notebooks are based on Crusoe. That’s something U.S. makers can’t ignore.”

Transmeta CEO David Ditzel, trying to put some English on the claim that his company’s chips are big in Japan, Wired News, 13 June 2001

“Even if the judge closed Napster down completely, I have no regrets, because I believe that Napster has 18 months more experience in file-sharing technology.”

Bertelsmann CEO Thomas Middelhoff, showing je-ne-regrette-rien nonchalance in the face of lawsuits from the rest of the music industry, The New York Times, 10 June 2001

“ExciteAtHome cannot guarantee employees that they will not be exposed to some adult material, either through specific work assignments or due to the presence of such material in the work environment.”

Excite@Home’s work agreement — whether it’s a warning or a perk, the document doesn’t specify, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 June 2001

“Web content in the year 2001 is the least competitive industry since Special Education. What else are you going to read? GettingIt? Requestline? The Finger?”

The Sucksters, founding fathers of Web punditry, sputtering in disbelief — and proving the Net’s continuing need of them — after their extensive street cred failed to extend their line of credit, Suck.com, 8 June 2001

“The Postal Service is, and always has been, one of the most high-tech companies in the world.”

USPS spokeswoman Susan Brennan, on the government agency’s use of sophisticated technology to lose ever greater volumes of paper mail, Wired News, 7 June 2001