“Access by kids to the Internet should be like kids breathing clean air.”
Nicholas Negroponte, überpundit and director of MIT’s Media Lab, displaying a deep grasp of contemporary environmental issues, News.com/Reuters, 26 November 1997
GHOST-IN-THE-MACHINE-BUSTERS?
“The impact of the Internet has already become so apparent. The other day I was looking for a local soccer schedule. It’s midnight, and who are you going to call?”
Palo Alto City Council member Liz Kniss, taking the more-wired-than-thou message to her soccer mom constituency, The New York Times, 8 December 1997
SO YOU’RE TRYING TO SAY IT’S NOT FOR SALE?
“Wired Digital is not for sale. Wired magazine is not for sale. Wired Ventures is not for sale.”
Former Wired publisher and editor Louis Rossetto (okay, he’s still chairman), delicately addressing recent rumors, News.com, 4 December 1997
THAT $23 MILLION SHAREHOLDER SUIT? JUST A WACKY MISUNDERSTANDING
“I was not a competent and capable CEO. I’m still responsible. But it was neglect, not malice.”
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, on his company’s early-’90s meltdown, BusinessWeek, 8 December 1997
WITH YOUR STOCK SLUMP, IT MIGHT NOT BE A BAD IDEA
“Netscape will not become a primary content company. We will not do our own news or share prices.”
Marc Andreessen, Netscape’s cofounder and executive vice president of not much really, missing a perfectly good business opportunity, Yahoo/Reuters, 2 December 1997
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