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“Windows is the most documented operating system that has ever been.”

Bill Gates, Microsoft’s chairman and chief technical writer, on his company’s literary achievements in the field of bug fixes, ZDNN, 20 June 2001

“Netscape 6 was absolutely the right product at the right time. It delivered the standards support the market was clamoring for.”

Netscape marketer Sol Goldfarb, defending his company’s late, buggy, lame browser as vital to retaining the Jeffrey Zeldman demographic, Wired News, 19 June 2001

“Michael Jordan will do almost as much for the Palm economy as Jeff Hawkins.”

Peter Klamka, comparing a deal that puts Jordan’s name on otherwise unremarkable handhelds to the contributions of Palm inventor Hawkins, News.com, 18 June 2001

“We are twice as expensive as IBM. However, we have a lot more stuff.”

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, attempting to justify his company’s bad habit of overcharging for its database software, News.com, 14 June 2001

“There is absolutely a role for us in what we call the low end.”

Ed Graczyk, Microsoft TV’s marketing director, skipping over how his company has made a rear end of itself in failing to deliver working software to AT&T’s cable division, The New York Times, 8 June 2001