“We were fundamentally order-takers. No more.”
Yahoo CEO Terry Semel, on how the sudden absence of advertising orders has changed the firm’s behavior, News.com, 15 November 2001
Author: Matt
In 2002 I started contributing to Open Source software, and life has just gotten better from there. Co-founder of WordPress, founder Automattic.
THIS IS NOT YOUR FOUNDER’S PROPAGANDA VEHICLE
“Wired wasn’t a technology magazine. It never covered feeds and speeds. It covered the digital revolution.”
Wired founder Louis Rossetto, whose successors, now employed by Conde Nast, could stand to have their memories jogged, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 November 2001
LESS THAN ZERO
“In the decade ahead I can predict that we will provide over twice the productivity improvement that we provided in the ’90s.”
Microsoft chairman Bill Gates, on the bumpy road ahead, Wired News, 13 November 2001
YOU’VE GOT 802.11B
“Nobody should have to be a systems integrator to make a convergence network work in their home.”
AOL Time Warner chairman Steve Case, on a recently struck alliance with Sony to ease the installation of home networks, News.com, 12 November 2001
AND THEN WE DOWNLOADED CHAPTER ELEVEN
“I think we did a great job of putting together a program that would have made good e-books available had people been buying e-books in any real numbers.”
Random House spokesman Thomas Perry, on the shuttering of @Random, the publisher’s e-book imprint, The New York Times, 9 November 2001
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