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Monicagate
 "I think everybody should cast a vote on principle and conscience" - President Bill Clinton, somewhat removed from the process that will decide his fate. "It's up to others to decide what happens to me," he said, "and ultimately it's going to be up to the American people to make a clear statement there."
"After careful reading of the Starr Report, I am impressed by the salacious and voyeuristic nature of your work." - Larry Flynt, porn magazine publisher, in an open letter offering a job to presecutor Kenneth Starr (read in Newsweek).
"I want to say to my Republican colleagues: Don't try to overplay your hand. Don't try to outsmart yourselves." - Bob Dole giving the Republicans a word of caution on the Lewinsky scandal (read in IHT).
"With remarkable dignity, often with courteous affability and without a trace of self-pity, he (Clinton) managed to get in his indignation at the maneuverings of both Paula Jones' lawyers and the Office of the Independent Counsel. " - Charles Taylor for Salon Magazine September 22, 1998.
"I have never stopped leading this country in foreign affairs in this entire year, and I never will" President Clinton, responding to a reporter's question of whether he has lost "all the moral authority to lead this nation or to conduct foreign affairs" (read in Newsweek).
"The statute of limitations has long since passed on my youthful indiscretions" Hyde, a 74-year-old Republican from Illinois, who admitted to the relationship, which began when he was 41 years old (read in Newsweek).
"... I think because of the public nature of how this investigation has been and what the charges aired, that I would just like to say that no one ever asked me to lie and I was never promised a job for my silence.
And that I'm sorry. I'm really sorry for everything's that's happened".
(The witness begins to cry.)
And I hate Linda Tripp."
Excerpt from the end of Lewinsky's August 30 grand jury session.
"She (Monica Lewinksy) has weaknesses obviously; she lied originally. But her obvious reluctance to spill her secrets makes her seem more believable now. They had such trouble getting her to come forward, she didn't just rush forward. She was no Linda Tripp" John W. Whitehead, a member of the Paula Jones legal team.
"It will never happen," Gore said, when asked about the prospect of resignation."...He will finish his term with a distinguished record."
David E. Kendall, Clinton's private lawyer, issued a statement Thursday in which he said he had demanded that Starr destroy the videotape of Clinton's grand jury testimony. Its continued existence, he said, "was to insure its public release and embarrass the President".
"I think that the right thing for our country and the right thing for all people concerned is not to get mired in all the details here," the President said in his first answers to questions since the House released the report by the Whitewater independent counsel, Kenneth W. Starr, on Friday. "Now that they know what happened, they want to put it behind them and they want to go on, and they want me to go on and do my job, and that's what I intend to do," he said. "That is the right thing to do".
"This is personal, and not impeachable. The salacious allegations in this referral are simply intended to humiliate, embarass and politically damage the president". -- David Kendall, after the release of Independent Counsel Ken Starr's report detailing 11 counts of possible impeachable offenses.
"It's probably the single highest number of people who have ever used the computer to access a single document". -- David Webber of the Frank Lutz polling company on the Starr Report published on the Internet Friday September 11.
"I don't think there is a fancy way to say that I have sinned. It is important to me that everybody who has been hurt know that the sorrow I feel is genuine - first and most important my family, also my friends, my staff, my cabinet, Monica Lewinsky and her family, and the American people. I have asked all fr their forgiveness". -- President Clinton, Friday September 11, 1998.
"It's fair to say this is not the best day of her life". -- Marsha Berry, spokesperson for First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, speaking the day after the president's admission of infidelity.
"I'm proud of him because he is a great president". -- Vice President Al Gore, in a statement delivered from Hawaii, where he is vacationing with his family, after Clinton's address.
"Indeed I did have a relationship with Ms. Lewinsky that was not appropriate. In fact, it was wrong. It constituted a critical lapse in judgment and a personal failure on my part for which I am solely and completely responsible". -- President Bill Clinton on National TV August 17, following an afternoon of testimony to Independent Counsel Ken Starr and a federal grand jury.
"When I see you wearing this tie I'll know that I am close yo your heart". -- Monica Lewsinky, when giving Clinton a necktie he then wore on her day of testimony before Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr's grand jury, according to a friend.
"I think Mr Clinton has a remarkable ability to focus on matters of concern to our country". -- Former US President Jimmy Carter.
"Maybe there'll be a simple, innocent explanation," McCurry told the Chicago Tribune. "I don't think so, because I think we would have offered that up already ... I think it's going to end up being a very complicated story, as most human relationships are. And I don't think it's going to be entirely easy to explain maybe".
"For anybody willing to find it, and write about it, and explain it, is this vast right-wing conspiracy that has been conspiring against my husband since the day he announced for President. A few journalists have kind of caught on to it and explained it, but it has not yet been fully revealed to the American public. And actually, you know, in a bizarre sort of way, this may do it ". -- Hillary Clinton on NBC's Today, Jan 27, 1998
"Now, I have to go back to work on my State of the Union speech. And I worked on it until pretty late last night. But I want to say one thing to the American people. I want you to listen to me. I'm going to say this again. I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky. I never told anybody to lie, not a single time Ð never. These allegations are false. And I need to go back to work for the American people. ". -- President Bill Clinton on national TV, January 26, 1998.
Y2K
" The risk of a reactor accident somewhere in the world before 2006 is as high as 67%." -- British physicist Dr Keith Baverstock from the World Health Organization.
"It is my expectation that when we wake up on January 1 in the year 2000, the Millennium Bug will have been a nonevent." - Sally Katzen, the point person for Millennium Bug compliance plans in 24 federal agencies, echoed this confident view.
"1/1/00 will definitely be an event but that the views of survivalists are extreme. This is not going to be pretty, but the notion that we should all run for the hills is truly silly" - Peter de Jager
"It is highly nlikely that all of the Medicare systems will be compliant in time to ensure the elivery of uninterrupted benefits and services" - said a report released Monday by the U.S. General Accounting Office, an investigative arm of Congress.
"Boeing airplanes will continue to fly safely when the clock strikes midnight in the year 2000" -- Walt Gillette, leader of engineering and product development for the Boeing Commercial Airplane Group, which has manufacturing facilities in the Southland. 8.9.98
"We cannot have software companies financially responsible for every piece of code that has ever been written. If they were, the entire computer industry would collapse. Everyone would be suing everyone else and no-one would write another piece of code in case they were liable to fix it in years to come", -- Peter de Yaeger on Andersen Consulting's legal battle with a customer that wants to recover the costs of making its 10-year old IT system Y2K compliant.
"The media's treatment of Y2K has been benignly negligent", -- Michael Harden, author of "Failure is Not an Option: Declaring War on the Year 2000 Problem." "It's getting better, but up to now it's really abdicated its responsibility of reporting on something that's going to have such an impact on our society".
"It's inadequate. The coverage I'm seeing now is what I would've like to have seen a year ago. It's improved a lot, but it's awful late". -- Ed Yardeni, Chief Economist and a Managing Director of Deutsche Bank Securities in New York, on the media coverage of Y2K, August 25, 1998.
"Stepping up currency printing" is purely a precautionary measure". -- A Fed official on The Federal Reserve's plan to stock up an additional $50 billion in cash for January 1, 2000.
"If you're a big organization, with 30,000 or more users, it's too late now to migrate [to a new messaging system] for the year 2000". -- David Ferris, Analyst with Ferris Research.
"Whole plants might have to be shut down until they complete their Year 2000 mediation programs". -- Hugh Thompson Jr., the deputy director of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) During the Global Year 2000 Action Day conference August 19.
"The Year 2K bug is more than just a computer problem. It is a serious threat not only to the U.S. economy, but to the global economy". -- Yed Yardeni, Chief Economist and a Managing Director of Deutsche Bank Securities in New York.
"Prepare for the worst. Hope for the best". -- Edward Yardeni, Chief Economist and a Managing Director of Deutsche Bank Securities in New York.
"The Year 2000 problem is the electronic equivalent of El Nino. This is going to have implications in the world ... that we can't even comprehend". -- Deputy Defense Secretary John J. Hamre adressing the Senate Armed Services Committee.
The Euro
"The timing of the euro conversion with the year 2000 work is disastrous. It is one of the worst public policy decisions in human history". -- Capers Jones, author and high-tech executive.
"The sea is calm, the dining room is great, the orchestra is playing. When we see the iceberg it may be too late". -- Jean-Pierre Chevènement, France's Interior minister.
Internet
"We've lost our North Star, but our compasses will still work if we remember Jon's wisdom and guidance. He's gone on ahead of us, but I look forward to seeing him again, someday." -- Vint Cerf, Chairman of the Internet Society, on Jonathan Postel's death, October 98.
"Today we can build on our progress and use these powerful new forces of technology to advance our oldest and most cherished values: to extend knowledge and prosperity to the most isolated inner cities at home, and the most remote rural villages around the world". -- Vice President Al Gore October 12, announcing his "Declaration of Interdependence" a five-step process toward a near-Utopian world status of connectivity.
"This is the first time two heads of government have used this technology to sign a joint document", -- MPaddy Holahan, vice-president of business development at Dublin-based Baltimore Technologies, after U.S. President Bill Clinton and Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern signed a U.S.-Ireland communique on electronic commerce using digital signatures. "It represents a significant moment in e-commerce history".
"The changes of the past few months are so dramatic as to be unbelievable". -- Robert M. Greber, chairman of the Pacific Exchange on the new trading mechanisms transforming today's largely antiquated exchanges into 21st century cybermarkets --floorless, global, and highly automated.
"It was open season on the Internet in the Senate". -- Electronic Frontier Foundation president Barry Steinhardt, following the Senate's passing the "CDAII" bill in July. "If these become law, it would seriously jeopardize free speech on the Internet."
"It's now time to start thinking beyond the Earth and get working on the design of an interplanetary Internet." -- Vint Cerf adressing Inet '98, in Geneva July 23rd.
"The Internet is just another communications medium -- not too different from the telephone, the telegraph or smoke signals." -- Jack Goldsmith, an associate professor at he Univ. of Chicago School of Law and author of an upcoming law review article, "Against Cyberanarchy".
"Information is not knowledge" -- Technorealists.
Technology
"Computers have changed the world quite a lot and they've certainly changed my own life." -- Pope John Paul II
"You go to your TV when you want to turn your brain off. You go to your computer when you want to turn your brain on." -- Steve Job
"The personal computer remains the only common possession that makes smart people feel stupid and requires the constant ministrations of a priesthood of experts. Unless you own a really lousy car, it's likely that your PC is the least dependable device in your home or office. Unlike the telephone, television or fax machine, it requires constant "upgrades" and behaves erratically, introducing a new hassle or two for every one it supposedly eliminates." Walter S. Mossberg for the Wall Street Journal, Personal Technology.
"Today there is a growing trade-off between convenience and security" -- Edward Felten, director of the Secure Internet Programming Laboratory at Princeton University, on the security problems faced by e-mail software."By making it easy to launch a program with a single click, you're also making it possible to launch a dangerous program with a single click."
"Computers act more and more not just as tools, but as agents that you delegate tasks to and ask to perform tasks based on your preferences" -- Rosalind Picard, associate professor at media technology at MIT.
"Technology is like a genie, capable of both harm and good. And he's out of the bottle." -- James Balog.
"We created the killer application long before that term was invented," said a Minitel developer. "But now the question is, what do we do with it?" -- a Minitel developer.
Domain Names
"The overriding rule, if you want to run a domain, is to be fair. If you're in charge of managing domain name space, you should treat everybody who asks for registration the same. Whatever that is -- whether it's nice or ugly or whatever -- just be fair, and treat them all the same." -- Jon Postel.
"I believe this is the largest known figure for a domain name transaction". -- Edwin Hayward, who runs Internet Gold Rush, on Compaq's reportedly paying $3,35 million for www.altavista.com.
"It's not to say there won't be legal challenges, but they will be beaten back. You'll never get 100 percent of people on the Internet agreeing on anything." -- Ira Magaziner, Senior Adviser to the President for Policy Development on domain name plan.
E-Mail
"When John Glenn returns from space, everybody dress in Ape suits. You have nine days in which to bury the Statue of the Liberty up to her collarbone." -- An e-mail titled "World's Biggest Practical Joke" circulating around the Internet (read in Newsweek).
E-mail can only increase in terms of their importance in litigation. People will begin to realize e-mail is as important as a piece of paper -- Chicago lawyer Michael Karpeles.
Sometimes, like old soldiers, old e-mail messages never die. -- Ted Bridis Associated Press writer.
Diamonds are forever. E-mail comes close -- Lexington Herald, September 27, 1998.
DOJ vs Microsoft
"When you talk to friends at the kids' soccer games, remember how much people admire our company." -- Microsoft President Steve Ballmer, in an e-mail to his staff on the eve of the U.S. vs. Microsoft trial (Salon)
"This antitrust thing will blow over". -- Comments by Bill Gates to Intel executives, November 10, 1998.
"We're going to make a big bet on the Internet". -- Bill Gates, April 6, 1994.
"I'm glad the Department of Justice is there. The DOJ shouldn't run the software industry, but Microsoft shouldn't, either." -- Esther Dyson.
"It is preposterous to think that any one company could ever control the Internet." -- Microsoft chief Bill Gates.
"Microsoft seems to employ the Henry Ford view of consumer choice -- 'You can have any color, as long as it is black." -- President of the Software Publishers Association, Ken Wasch.
"In Microsoft's world, customers can buy whatever they want, as long as it is from Microsoft".
At a news conference, Bill Gates blasted the Justice Department's decision to sue his company for monopolistic practices as "a step backwards for America, for consumers and for the PC industry, which is leading our nation's economy into the 21st century."
Windows 98
"I guess we still have some bugs to work out". Microsoft chairman Bill Gates after WIndows 98 crashed in front of industry experts in March.
IE Trademark
"We carefully research our names. There was no trademark for Internet Explorer." -- Microsoft spokesman Jim Cullinan.
TerraServer
Microsoft's TerraServer site, a database of finely detailed photographs of planet Earth taken from space and from the air faield to respond as user demand has overwhelmed the system's capacity. "Would-be visitors to the site have suggested that Microsoft's technical claims do not rest on terra firma". -- Paul Festa.
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