“Our rejection of a specific merger proposal does not in any way imply our opposition to change itself.”
Hewlett-Packard scion David Packard, on resisting plans to merge his daddy’s company with Compaq, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 December 2001
WE DON’T CARE, WE’RE THE INTERNET COMPANY
“The utility model of computing — computing resources delivered over the network in much the same way that electricity or telephone service reaches our homes and offices today — makes more sense than ever.”
Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy, on a tech monopoly he can get behind, CBS MarketWatch, 20 December 2001
I’M SO UBER YOU
“I’m an uber-aggregator.”
EarthLink founder Sky Dayton, on his wireless-Internet startup Boingo’s plan to cobble a nationwide network out of local ISPs, News.com, 19 December 2001
LET’S GIVE THEM SOMETHING TO GROK ABOUT
“In the future, everybody is going to be a director. Somebody’s got to live a real life so we have something to make a movie about.”
Vanilla Sky director Cameron Crowe, on the hypermediated age to come, Wired News, 18 December 2001
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“I think the environment for doing major research and development — real innovation — is better now than it was before.”
Microsoft chairman Bill Gates, on the dot-com implosion’s effect on Microsoft’s research-by-acquisition strategy, The New York Times, 17 December 2001
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