“Tonight was like building a Web site. We got a lot of people to work on it. Now we’ll take everything we learned and do it again next year.”
Marc Weiss, founder of Silicon Alley’s Web Development Fund, which promises to fill in the gaping money sinks that even gullible venture capitalists can’t be persuaded to back, on a recent “talent” show the fund hosted, New York Times, 6 April 1998
“We think that advertising designed to create brand awareness or corporate images is not going to work on the Web because it is a channel where you want to do something that you’ve already decided to do. So print is the right way to promote brand image and awareness.”
Pat McGovern, founder and chairman of trade publisher IDG, whose laughably bad Web sites certainly couldn’t be related to its lack of appeal to online advertisers, The European, 29 March 1998
“It’s a volatile issue and I think it will remain volatile but I do feel encouraged and I do think that if you sort of focus on the substance as opposed to emotion there’s a lot more agreement than there is a disagreement and I think the areas of disagreement should be resolvable.”
Ira Magaziner, President Clinton’s Internet czar, on the restless peons who oppose the U.S. government’s proposal for reforming the registration of domain names, The New York Times, 1 April 1998
“It’s not enough just to have a product that works on the Internet. We want companies that truly are interested in knitting this whole Web thing together.”
Clarence Madison, founder of way new venture capital firm New World Associates whose resemblance to photographer Bart Nagel is downright uncanny, expounding on his theory that the whole world is a computer to any fool who will listen, The Red Herring, 1 April 1998
“The Web is about info nuggets and eye candy. I don’t believe you can convey serious ideas in a Web-based publication and be taken seriously.”
David Temkin, a herder of cats for @Home and founder of In Formation magazine, on why he’s killing trees to make his points about technoutopia, ABCNEWS.com, 30 March 1998
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