“Print’s a lot like life right now: you die once. You can reread it again, but Hamlet’s still dead on the stage at the very end.”
J. Yellowlees Douglas, author of hypertext fiction I Have Said Nothing, on the fallibility of dead-tree literature, New York Times CyberTimes, 11 September 1997
“We want our God-given 90 percent market share, and we will exploit every friggin’ distribution channel to get it.”
Netscape’s VP of sales and marketing Mike Homer, Wired News, 10 September 1997
“The past year marked the transformation of Internet online services into a mass market medium. “
AOL CEO Steve Case, on his service’s acquisitive menage à trois with WorldCom and CompuServe, News.com, 8 September 1997
“Promoting spirituality is not something we normally have the opportunity to do.”
CKS creative director Mark Frankel, who’s obviously never been to Macworld Expo, on his agency’s work for the Billy Graham Crusade, Silicon Valley Business Journal, 8 September 1997
“This is a derivative medium. We all steal each other’s ideas.”
MSNBC editor-in-chief Merrill Brown, on a recent redesign that sought to make the site more distinctive, Wired News, 5 September 1997
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