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“Our focus is more on being a personalized infomediary-oriented offering for our members.”

NBC Internet CEO Will Lansing, on where his also-ran portal is putting most of its energies these days, News.com, 27 April 2000

“They want everything to be free and let’s all be friends. But fortunately, this is not the American way.”

Unisys patent lawyer Mark Starr, on his company’s attempts to squeeze dough out of Websites that dare to generate GIF images, The Industry Standard, 25 April 2000

“I have been an Internet user since ARPANET days, in 1976. Today I am one of the senior technical cadre that makes the Internet work.”

Open-source programmer Eric Raymond, admonishing legal scholar Larry Lessig to f33r his 3l33t sk1llz, The American Prospect, 25 April 2000

“At the end of the day — best-case scenario — 20 percent of stuff is going to be sold online.”

BlueLight.com CEO Mark Goldstein, on the market share of his fellow online retailers in the near future, The Washington Post, 22 April 2000

“We’re not going to spend another three or four years slogging it out with Yahoo and AOL.”

Excite@Home CEO George Bell, on his company’s slack growth in its conventional Web businesses, News.com, 21 April 2000