“We’ve got an audience, and we’re going to figure out how to get money directly from them.”
Yahoo VP Matt Rightmire, on the portal’s plan to make users pay, Upside.com, 17 November 2000
IN THE MARKET OF THE BLIND, THE ONE-EYED INVESTOR IS KING
“We don’t see any further investments in the Internet.”
Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, groping his way through the market after watching his investment in Priceline burn up, News.com, 16 November 2000
DON’T MAKE ME COME OVER THERE AND REDESIGN YOUR FACE
“In the future, first of all, websites will be designed by my guidelines … for the simple reason that if they don’t, they are dead.”
Usability enforcer Jakob Nielsen, making website designers an offer they can’t refuse, Wired News, 15 November 2000
JOB SECURITY: TOO CLOSE TO CALL
“Do CEOs get to ask for a recount?”
Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina, delivering a keynote at Comdex after the final count revealed the company missed expected earnings by almost $200 million this quarter, ZDNN, 13 November 2000
IS THAT WHAT YOU MEAN BY “THICK CLIENT”?
“Some people have had the mistaken notion that in order to make the server smarter, you need to make the client dumber.”
Microsoft chairman Bill Gates, defining dumbness down in defending his decades-old vision of client-server technology, News.com, 13 November 2000
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