“It’s not a sane business environment when you decide that your primary competitive tool is lawyers.”
Microsoft Europe chairman Bernard Vergnes, on the company’s legal strategy of hiring worst-of-breed solicitors, ZDNN, 13 October 2000
SPECIFICALLY, WE HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT WHEN INVESTMENT WILL RETURN
“The era of trickle-down investing is over…. We have to use self-generated cash to pay for our advertising and our infrastructure. We have to worry about return and about investment.”
Intel chairman Andy Grove, on Intel’s new don’t-call-us-we’ll-call-you approach to venture capital, News.com, 12 October 2000
INSTANT ON, NO BANNER ADS — YUP, NOTHING LIKE A PC
“People say they want full Web browsing, and that’s the one thing we can’t deliver. We need to let people know that wireless is not like using a PC.”
Michael Mace, chief competitive officer of Palm Computing, apologizing unnecessarily for the wireless Web’s flaws, The New York Times, 28 September 2000
OR WAS THAT A SNAIL WITH A PENTIUM ON ITS BACK?
“We’ve clearly hit a speed bump.”
Apple CEO Steve Jobs, on disappointing earnings projected for the company this quarter — due, no doubt, to disappointed Apple fans who’ve been waiting for some speed bumps in their favored Macintosh models, Upside.com, 28 September 2000
BUSINESS CASUAL DOESN’T COUNT?
“I had this techno-utopian view early on that the Internet, for instance, would make possible a decentralized, Jeffersonian democracy. Now, I don’t believe that big social changes will be brought about by technology.”
Lotus Development founder turned venture capitalist Mitch Kapor, skipping over the wardrobe changes wrought by years of suit-taunting by the geeks, Interactive Week, 25 September 2000
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