“If there’s going to be cannibalization, I’d just as soon cannibalize myself.”
CompUSA CEO Jim Halpin, on the computer retailer’s plan to let its Cozone.com subsidiary gnaw CompUSA’s leg out of a retail pricing trap, Fortune, 20 December 1999 (issue date)
“We see it as efficient investment. The sock puppet allows us to break through the clutter.”
Pets.com marketing veep John Hommeyer, on the pet-supply concern’s plan to spend millions advertising a sock puppet during the Superbowl, Variety.com, 2 December 1999
“It used to be that the senior people decided what it was that you needed to know. The information was metered to you. But the modern warfighter has to be able to craft his own information domain.”
Vice Admiral Arthur Cebrowski, on the U.S. Navy’s new “network-centric” strategy, Wired News, 1 December 1999
“This is a product that was designed totally with the consumer and the Internet in mind. It really is a break from the past.”
Dell Computer chairman Michael Dell, coming curiously close to admitting he was doing something wrong before as he introduced Dell’s new WebPC, The New York Times, 1 December 1999
“We visited a friend who’s working for a startup that has installed beds in cubicles and is providing three meals a day. There are companies bragging about this kind of mistreatement!”
NetSlaves author Bill Lessard, who’s no doubt also crusading against the Internet industry’s high pay and lax work rules, Time Digital Daily, 29 November 1999
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