“It takes some technical savvy to look at something and say, ‘This emperor has no clothes.'”
Newly elected ICANN director Karl Auerbach, on his plans to use SNMP (the Simple Naked Monarch Protocol) to point out clothes-deficient domain-name policies, Salon.com, 16 October 2000
“It’s not a sane business environment when you decide that your primary competitive tool is lawyers.”
Microsoft Europe chairman Bernard Vergnes, on the company’s legal strategy of hiring worst-of-breed solicitors, ZDNN, 13 October 2000
“The era of trickle-down investing is over…. We have to use self-generated cash to pay for our advertising and our infrastructure. We have to worry about return and about investment.”
Intel chairman Andy Grove, on Intel’s new don’t-call-us-we’ll-call-you approach to venture capital, News.com, 12 October 2000
“People say they want full Web browsing, and that’s the one thing we can’t deliver. We need to let people know that wireless is not like using a PC.”
Michael Mace, chief competitive officer of Palm Computing, apologizing unnecessarily for the wireless Web’s flaws, The New York Times, 28 September 2000
“We’ve clearly hit a speed bump.”
Apple CEO Steve Jobs, on disappointing earnings projected for the company this quarter — due, no doubt, to disappointed Apple fans who’ve been waiting for some speed bumps in their favored Macintosh models, Upside.com, 28 September 2000
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