“Whatever mental voice you hear when you read The Economist, it’s not mine. My voice is actually much closer to Wired. By the time it got through the sausage machine, it may have sounded like it was written by a 50-year-old man, but it didn’t start out that way.”
Newly appointed Wired editor Chris Anderson, who, at 39, was just a decade or so ahead of his time at his last job, Wired News, 11 April 2001
“Most CIOs will tell you they don’t want any barefoot, navel-pierced hippies messing around with their databases.”
Wheelhouse chairman Frank Ingari, who hasn’t been briefed on Linux programmers’ penchant for Birkenstocks, The Wall Street Journal, 9 April 2001
“I want to ride in the car, I don’t want to be locked in the trunk.”
Internet gadfly Dave Winer, insisting that he’s shocked — shocked! — to learn that Microsoft’s technology plans aren’t entirely open, The New York Times, 9 April 2001
“We are teaching the CEOs at all our companies how to be thrifty right now.”
Jim Dorrian of Crosspoint Venture Partners, on his firm’s attempts to recycle its portfolio companies, Washington Post, 27 March 2001
“I’m not going to accept the argument that there is some way to get around [the Internet gambling ban]. And even if that is the case, then people will always find a way to get around it.”
Australian Communications Minister Richard Alston, on an Internet gambling ban that even he admits might be pointless because of the ease of hiding IP addresses, Australian IT, 28 March 2001
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