“We weren’t thinking, ‘What’s our answer to Java?’ Our answer to Java is called Windows.”
Microsoft senior VP Jim Allchin, News.com, 25 September 1997
WHERE THERE’S SMOKE, THERE’S FIRE
“The Internet is more about focusing on the opportunity, not the risk. As a result, you have a lot of people more focused on growing top line instead of controlling bottom line. If it works, I think this type of thinking leads to huge companies. If it doesn’t, you get flameouts or buyouts.”
Excite senior VP and cofounder Joe Kraus, quoted in Chris Tacy’s New York Times CyberTimes column, 24 September 1997
THE NETWORK IS THE VIEWER
“This thing about hardware is too much. As people spend more time in the Java browser, IS can just swap out the PC over the weekend sometime. The JavaStation is only the viewer. “
Sun CEO and professional quote machine Scott McNealy on the deployment of network computers, News.com, 22 September 1997
SHHH, NO ONE TELL HIM ABOUT THOSE PUNKS AT THE EFF
“Let us teach young Filipinos to learn about computers and not just be noisemakers who attend mass rallies.”
Philippine President and wannabe-strongman Fidel Ramos, grousing about kids these days and their people power, Chicago Tribune, 22 September 1997
FUNNY, ONE MIGHT SAY THE SAME OF YOUR SOFTWARE
“George has a few ideas that are intellectually interesting and some that are just weird. He mixes them up in a way that is often disconcerting.”
Microsoft übergeek Nathan Myhrvold, on George Gilder’s Telecosm conference, The New York Times, 22 September 1997
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