“Customers want more than just a hot box. What they want now is a solution.”
Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina, on how her company’s merger with Compaq will help it overtake Danni Ashe in the hot-box market, InfoWorld, 4 September 2001
WE MUST ALL HANG TOGETHER, OR ASSUREDLY OUR PROGRAMS WILL HANG SEPARATELY
“Everyone says that working together is good. But somewhere, in their dark, little minds, they say, ‘I want to do this alone. I want to make millions.'”
Linus Torvalds, airing a lament about avaricious, selfish Linux coders, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 September 2001
I LOVE THE SMELL OF CASHFLOW IN THE MORNING
“I don’t get up in the morning and crunch numbers.”
Patti Hart, CEO of beleaguered broadband provider Excite@Home, on her distaste for accounting, including figuring out just how she’s going to repay a $100 million loan the company’s on the hook for, The New York Times, 2 September 2001
I WAS A DOT-COM GO-GO BOY
“It was a go-go time. We were hot. We could raise capital at will and had an opportunity to build something that couldn’t be duplicated.”
Former Excite@Home CEO Tom “T.J.” Jermoluk, on the rapid-fire buy-and-build strategy that led the company to its present straits, News.com, 31 August 2001
MARKET FARCES
“We’re obviously going to spend a lot in marketing because we think the product sells itself.”
For more on Allchin’s exploits, Ditherati recommends Wall Street Journal reporter David Bank’s new book Breaking Windows: How Bill Gates Fumbled the Future of Microsoft.
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