Author: Matt

“The browser is a crown jewel. However, six months from now, you won’t consider Netscape to be a browser company.”

Netscape president Jim Bankoff, on the once-storied browser company’s disclaim to fame, San Jose Mercury News, 5 June 2001

“BT does not have a social-services remit to make broadband Britain work. It cannot work until people realize that the Internet is not for free.”

BT chairman Christopher Bland, on the government-sanctioned U.K. phone monopoly’s lack of obligations to society, The Sunday Times, 3 June 2001

“We think the marketer’s interest in targeting is equal to the user’s interest in relevance.”

Ted Meisel, CEO of pay-to-play search engine GoTo.com, on the virtues of Web payola, The New York Times, 4 June 2001

“[The Vivendi purchase] is a little on the crazy side, and dripping with irony. But I guess that’s what makes the Internet so darn interesting.”

Supposed former litigation junkie Michael Robertson, on selling digital music upstart MP3.com to a major label, Salon.com, 1 June 2001

“The Internet will massify in Latin America wirelessly.”

StarMedia CEO Fernando Espuelas, whose punditries are as hard to classify as the Internet is to massify, The New York Times, 29 May 2001