“I don’t think human beings should have to deal with memory management at all, but it’s certainly not something you want to inflict on CS 101 students.”
Linux developer Eric S. Raymond, on his comp-sci for dummies curriculum, Chicago Tribune, 13 July 2000
“The great thing about the early-’90s cyberculture was that we got to make it all up.”
Digital visionary (at least when he’s on the requisite hallucinogens) R.U. Sirius, on the challenges of tech journalism, San Francisco Bay Guardian, 5 July 2000
“I don’t think anybody can dominate the Internet; I might also argue that nobody really dominates the PC market, but I don’t want to get back into that view of history.”
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, embracing and extending the company’s antitrust legal strategy to its Internet efforts, News.com, 12 July 2000
“Napster does not copy files. It does not provide the technology for copying files.”
Napster CEO Hank Barry, trying to make his company’s turnkey, robust, end-to-end piracy solutions provision delivery technology seem much more useless than it in fact is, Wired News, 11 July 2000
“We have high-quality content — we don’t want to throw that away. But we don’t think you can build a business just on the back of that.”
Feed cofounder Steven Johnson, discoursing loftily on the formation of content holding company Automatic Media that merged his site with Suck.com, The Wall Street Journal/MSNBC.com, 10 July 2000
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