A “DIFFICULT TIME,” AS IN SINCE IT LEFT THE GARAGE?

“On behalf of the Board, I would like to thank Mr. Markkula, Ms. Hudson, and Mr. Goldstein for their contributions to Apple during a very difficult time in its history.”

Apple director Edgar Woolard, on canning longtime Apple board member A.C. “Mike” Markkula, company press release, 6 August 1997

CLUE UNTO OTHERS

“If their view of the world is that government is clueless, the answer is not staying in Silicon Valley, it’s coming here and cluing people in.”

Jerry Berman, director of the Washington, D.C.-based Center for Democracy and Technology, on high-tech companies’ lobbying efforts, New York Times, 4 August 1997

LIKE, POSTCOOL, DADDY-O

“You can only become cool once. So I think we’re going into a postcool period and we’re going to be as radical as we can without being cool.”

Kevin Kelly, executive editor of Wired, New York Times, 4 August 1997

THE ORWELL GOSPEL

“We need Sun as a big brother to provide resources, means of distribution, and to preach our sermon to the world.”

Diba founder Farzad Dibachi on his company’s acquisition by Sun, News.com, 31 July 1997