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“The venture capitalists have been spending money like drunken sailors.”

Tech financier Sandy Robertson, on the market’s recent hangover, The Industry Standard, 4 April 2000

“What links all this together is content. Consumers will not stand for the mediocre, biased or the uninteresting.”

AOL chairman Steve Case, on how his Internet strategy is bolstered by the acquisition of Time Warner’s vast storehouses of bland content, CBS MarketWatch, 5 April 2000

“Intel’s position is, we don’t have one.”

Intel spokesperson Chuck Molloy, on his employer’s complete sense of detachment from the fate of its operating-system partner, ZDNN, 4 April 2000

“I’ll never write another DaveNet. It’s all happening on the Web now. I can’t stop for the three hours it takes to write and edit an essay.”

Software developer Dave Winer, delivering a surprising farewell column to his readers, many of whom were stunned by the revelation that he actually edited his writing, DaveNet, 29 March 2000

“As more and more women are finding opportunities in the new economy, they are finding some problems of the old economy as well. We need to build that new girls’ network to compete with that of the old boys’ network.”

First Lady and Senate candidate Hillary Clinton, on the Silicon Valley venture capital industry’s need for a shakeup, San Francisco Examiner, 30 March 2000