USE IT OR LOSE IT

“One of the most amazing things over the last six or seven years is watching Microsoft basically get a monopoly over the browser and then not use it.”

Netscape founder Marc Andreessen, on Microsoft’s bizarrely benign behavior, PC Advisor, 8 October 2004

SHE’S GETTING UGLIER BY THE DAY, BUT

“The direction is down significantly.”

Oracle co-president Safra Catz, dumping on the prospects of PeopleSoft, a company she ostensibly would like to acquire, Forbes.com, 11 October 2004

ALL THE HORRIBLE CALLS THAT ARE FIT TO PRINT

“All I can say is that it was a horrible call.”

David Menlow, president of the IPO Financial Network, apologizing for telling investors to avoid Google, up $50 since its debut, The New York Times, 6 October 2004