“If it didn’t have problems at the beginning, it wouldn’t be great technology.”
Lesswire AG employee Ulrich Woessner, insisting that a failed demo of the Bluetooth wireless technology is actually proof of future coolness, Wired News, 26 March 2001
TIMING IS EVERYTHING
“This is a perfect time to start a dot-com.”
Laugh.com founder Bob Kohn, on the early April Fool’s joke he’s pulling on investors, News.com, 23 March 2001
GENERATION X-ML?
“The phones that people have today are not the phones that people will want to use in the XML generation.”
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, inventing an implausible demographic for his company’s software products, CNN.com, 22 March 2001
WE PUT THE SHOPPING CART BEFORE THE HORSE
“What you typically do is perfect the store and once you perfect it, you start rolling it out. In this case we rolled it out and we perfected it later.”
Kozmo CEO Gerry Burdo, on the company’s retrenchment from its original nationwide ambitions, News.com, 21 March 2001
INFORMATION WANTS TO BE FEE
“As we all know by now, the Web didn’t rewrite all the rules. A free press has its costs.”
Salon.com chairman David Talbot, on the company’s hail-Mary plan to introduce a subscription fee for premium content to keep the site afloat, Salon.com, 20 March 2001
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