“It’s almost impossible to make a name for yourself on the Internet unless you do something scandalous like Matt Drudge.”
Novelist Tom Wolfe, on the impossibility of young auteurs rising above Net noise, The Washington Post, 16 November 1998
OBJECTIVE OVERRULED
“I will not pretend to be an objective observer of the Microsoft trial. You wouldn’t believe me if I did.”
Jodie Allen, Washington editor of Microsoft-owned webzine Slate, getting all postmodern with that wacky notion of editorial independence, The New York Times, 17 November 1998
NEXT TIME, WE WON’T PRE-ANNOUNCE THE PRE-ANNOUNCEMENT
“The company has learned a lot of valuable lessons about pre-announcing products.”
Iomega marketeer Craig Rathbun, attempting to induce a phase shift in his company’s Clik vaporware at Comdex, Wired News, 17 November 1998
THE LAW OF SUPPLY AND ON-DEMAND
“The single most important thing the Internet has going for it is being on-demand.”
ZDTV CEO Larry Wangberg, touting the Net’s ability to act as a ridiculously overbuilt VCR at the Streaming ’98 conference, News.com, 16 November 1998
I THOUGHT SOFTWARE WAS A LOW-OVERHEAD BUSINESS
“At Microsoft, the overhead of having meetings and building a consensus among a group of people is so high, I had to hire people just to manage the communication.”
Sabeer Bhatia, a Microsoft M&A executive who got assimilated along with his startup, Hotmail, earlier this year, The New York Times, 16 November 1998
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