“People have actually started using their phones. That has stressed our system.”
AT&T Wireless vice president Bruce Martin, on the threat posed to his operation by customers who actually use the service they’ve paid for, The Washington Post, 12 April 2000
“We’re only at the start of the dot-com learning curve. As the road gets steeper and you don’t drive at Internet speed, you’d better keep an eye out for the tire marks on your back.”
Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy, watching his train of thought come off its metaphorical rails in real time, The Register, 12 April 2000
“Broadcasting makes money! When did business stop being about making money? Have we been taken over by dot-communists?”
Media dinosaur Sumner Redstone, who’ll be first against the wall when Excite@Home buys Viacom, Wired News, 10 April 2000
“Venture capitalists don’t have the longest attention spans in the world.”
Kleiner Perkins partner Ted Schlein, formerly in charge of Java-themed investments, on his firm’s move to create an old-school leveraged buyout fund, The Industry Standard, 10 April 2000
“There are worse things than having your privacy violated … like murder.”
FBI agent Paul George, winning friends and influencing a crowd of technolibertarians at the tenth annual Computers, Freedom and Privacy conference in Toronto, ZDNN, 6 April 2000
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