“We’re not going to bother with the tit-for-tat price war that all of our competitors are engaged in.”
Gateway CEO Ted Waitt, in an internal memo announcing the PC maker’s latest sally in a tit-for-tat price war, News.com, 29 May 2001
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In 2002 I started contributing to Open Source software, and life has just gotten better from there. Co-founder of WordPress, founder Automattic.
AS LONG AS THEY SPELL MY URL RIGHT
“We’ve built the brand up to a point where we can do an aggressive campaign…. We’ll be a lot more direct and this campaign will name names.”
Bob Visse, an MSN product manager, on Microsoft’s plan to provide free advertising for its Internet-access rivals, The Industry Standard, 29 May 2001
TRADE DEFICIT
“I think we’ve actually exported fraud to Yahoo.”
eBay CEO Meg Whitman, on how getting tough on sellers of faux Beanie Babies has moved cybercrime to other auction sites, San Jose Mercury News, 27 May 2001
IF THE HTML DOESN’T FIT, YOU MUST ACQUIT
“I’ve worked on so many Web projects and today they’re all gone. I realized there’s no proof I actually did anything.”
Freelance writer Steve Baldwin, on the motivation for his Museum of E-Failure, which includes such doozies as Time Warner’s defunct O.J. Central, The New York Times, 24 May 2001
WHEN YOU GOT NOTHING, YOU GOT NOTHING TO LOSE
“There is no killer application for 3G, so you have to have a killer attitude.”
Gartner analyst Nigel Deighton, on the pressing danger that the wireless industry will soon refuse to clap their hands and believe in fairies, BBC News, 23 May 2001
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