“The consumer doesn’t care. Let’s not pretend that when we worship at the altar of open standards millions of average consumers are lined up behind us.”
Jupiter Communications analyst Lucas Graves, pointing out that the emperor has no standards, News.com, 6 August 1999
“In the old days you just had to yell out, ‘Zog, it’s me,’ and he would let you into the cave without clubbing you. Now you need all these passwords to get access anywhere.”
Irving Biederman, a cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Southern California, proposing an old-media alternative to modern computer security schemes, The New York Times, 5 August 1999
“Letting people who are not online access the Internet … is a wonderful opportunity.”
Gene Lockhart, AT&T’s president of consumer services, on a deal with Sega to let the great unwired surf to their hearts’ content — as soon as they work out a few technical problems on how to connect to the Net without getting online, ZDNN, 4 August 1999
“Anyone with the talent and the cunning to make something really good, and then get people to look at it, is going to be successful.”
Word editor-in-chief Marisa Bowe, giving advice that would serve her own four-year-old, on-again-off-again Webzine well, Internet World, 1 August 1999
“Don’t think about us as a phone company anymore. Think of us as an on-ramp to the Internet.”
US West marketing VP Mike Rouleau, who should be happy people think about his company and its endangered local-phone monopoly at all, News.com, 2 August 1999
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