“I wouldn’t mind if we sounded like Sports Illustrated.”
Dave Kansas, editor-in-chief of testosterone-addled financial news site TheStreet.com, Wired News, 7 July 1998
SOYLENT GREEN IS PEOPLE.COM
“The Internet people don’t want to know about marine protein, and marine protein people don’t want to know about the Internet.”
Zapata Corporation CEO Avram Glazer, the fish-meal mogul intent on buying a Net empire, laying out the rationale for spinning off his Internet concerns as a new company, The New York Times, 6 July 1998
MONEY CAN’T BUY HAPPINESS (BUT DENIAL’S PRETTY CHEAP)
“All the net worth in the world isn’t worth anything if I’m not happy and don’t like what I’m doing.”
Chief Yahoo Jerry Yang, whose shares in the dull-as-dirt Net directory are worth almost one billion dollars on paper, USA Today, 2 July 1998
WE DO NOTHING VERY FAST
“We’re not responsible, but we’re responsive.”
GeoCities CEO Thomas Evans, explaining how his company deserves credit for being swift to duck the blame for the content users put up on its Web pages, Village Voice, 2 July 1998
POP GOES THE WEBZINE
“I don’t dream of IPO day. Money is not my measure of success. I want my epitaph to read: ‘He made a cultural impact.'”
Editor-in-chief David Talbot, on his high hopes for Salon Magazine’s make-no-waves journalism, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 1998
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