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“It’s easier to tell the truth so you don’t have to remember everything.”

Microsoft VP Dan’l Lewin, who will soon be adding litigation strategy to his responsibilities as envoy to Silicon Valley, ZDNN, 24 April 2001

“I’m a broadband believer, and today, we’re just at the beginning of the game.”

Patti Hart, newly appointed Excite@Home CEO, who’s taking the firm’s reins following a financially disastrous first quarter, San Jose Mercury News, 23 April 2001

“To what extent did advertising agencies fuel the decline of dot-coms by draining their finances with disproportional ad campaigns? Did we behave as pigs at the feeding trough?”

Maurice Levy, CEO of the Publicis advertising conglomerate, feeling a wee bit guilty about taking all that money being thrown at him, The New York Times, 20 April 2001

“In the old days, we had an economic cycle that was a nice rolling, gradual curve. Now it seems we don’t have rolling waves; we have real edges. The real issue is, can you turn on a dime as the needle starts flipping back and forth?”

Sun CEO Scott McNealy, on how the economy threw his company a curve ball, News.com, 19 April 2001

“It doesn’t matter if it’s a movie or the Internet. The services go to the same people, in Sunnyvale, Shanghai and Stockholm.”

Former Warner Bros. studio chief Terry Semel, musing alliteratively about his new gig as Yahoo’s chairman and CEO, CBS MarketWatch, 17 April 2001