“It’s no longer about high-quality, locally produced information. It’s about transactions.”
Ticketmaster Online-CitySearch CEO Charles Conn, on why local sites with interesting content produced by people actually knowledgeable about a city don’t threaten him, News.com, 13 August 1999
“It’s really wrong for labels to think they have any right to an artist’s Web site altogether — because this is a business that is about the music, it’s not about the record companies.”
Steven Jenson, manager of alternarockers Counting Crows, defending the band’s label-independent Web site, Salon.com, 11 August 1999
“An automobile is just a Java browser with tires.”
Sun CEO Scott McNealy, seeking to explain the automobile industry’s disturbingly high frequency of crashes, InfoWorld, 10 August 1999
“While there have been meetings with America Online in the recent past, there is no specific proposal currently under discussion between AT&T and AOL.”
AT&T, making an almost Clintonian quasi-denial in a prepared statement responding to suggestions that it’s been less than faithful to its cable-modem partner Excite@Home, MSNBC, 9 August 1999
“There’s going to be a Net inside my head and one personality is going to want to keep secrets from another.”
Open-source hacktivist Hugh Daniels, giving a very, very personal vision of the Internet at the Chaos Computer Camp outside Berlin, Wired News, 9 August 1999
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