IT’S A DEAD MAN’S PARTY, WHO COULD ASK FOR MORE?

“A big party started raging and no one’s quite sure of who originally threw it, but everyone participated, all the way through the buy side and institutional funds.”

Crosspoint VC Jim Dorrian, who prefers to remember the Internet bubble as a really rocking kegger, not a binge drinking session, News.com, 25 April 2001

FORGET ME .NET

“It’s easier to tell the truth so you don’t have to remember everything.”

Microsoft VP Dan’l Lewin, who will soon be adding litigation strategy to his responsibilities as envoy to Silicon Valley, ZDNN, 24 April 2001

OUR GOOD TIMES START AND END WITHOUT DOLLAR ONE TO SPEND

“I’m a broadband believer, and today, we’re just at the beginning of the game.”

Patti Hart, newly appointed Excite@Home CEO, who’s taking the firm’s reins following a financially disastrous first quarter, San Jose Mercury News, 23 April 2001

URLS BEFORE SWINE

“To what extent did advertising agencies fuel the decline of dot-coms by draining their finances with disproportional ad campaigns? Did we behave as pigs at the feeding trough?”

Maurice Levy, CEO of the Publicis advertising conglomerate, feeling a wee bit guilty about taking all that money being thrown at him, The New York Times, 20 April 2001

WE’RE THE FLIPPING EDGE IN DOT COM

“In the old days, we had an economic cycle that was a nice rolling, gradual curve. Now it seems we don’t have rolling waves; we have real edges. The real issue is, can you turn on a dime as the needle starts flipping back and forth?”

Sun CEO Scott McNealy, on how the economy threw his company a curve ball, News.com, 19 April 2001