World Economic Forum
 "If globalization is rapidly changing with whom we interact, then digital communications and networks are changing how we interact. We are proactively addressing the social dimension of globalization, and through the Internet we invite the public to witness the debate taking place in Davos". -- Klaus Schwab, Founder and President of the World Economic Forum
Y2K
"Things don't go right by accident. People across the world have found all kinds of date change faults in business and public services which, as a result of money, effort and time, have been fixed." --Margaret Beckett, the UK minister in charge of tackling the millennium bug
"There is going to be another opportunity for bugs Monday morning -- everyone is going to come in to their office, and turn on their PC's. "It is possible that bugs will manifest themselves in coming days and weeks." -- Ed Yourdon
"We're damned if we do and damned if we don't here. If there are no problems, then people say, well, there was never an issue." --Consultant Peter De Jager
"Not only were the infrastructure systems operating on Guam, but a plane landed and a baby was born." -- U.S. Y2K czar John Koskinen
"The lights didn't go out at 12." -- Michael Forman, country manager in Moscow for Galileo International Inc.
"People didn't throw $300 billion to $600 billion [Gartner Group's estimate of total Y2K spending] into fixing a problem that didn't exist. People spent $300 billion to $600 billion fixing it, and that's why nothing happened." -- Dale Vecchio, research director at Gartner Group [PC World]
This is the kickoff for the Y2k -- which is going to be like the Super Bowl for virus writers." -- Anti-virus firm Symantec Corp.(SYMC.O) director of research Vincent Weafer on the new W32/Mypics.worm, which willbe triggered by the date Jan. 1, 2000
"I suspect we will see a (Y2K) virus at least every couple of days between now and the end of the year. If you were going to release a Y2K virus, this would be the time to do it." -- Perry, the Trend Micro official.
"Let me first solve the problem of 1999" -- 50-year-old Fat'hallah Mohran puffing on a water pipe in a small cafe in a Cairo slum
"There won't be significant outages. The biggest fear I have is a lot of the general public is going to pick up the phone just to see if they have a dial tone and call friends. That will be a volume burden. It's probably the biggest threat of all" -- Lou Marcoccio, research director for Gartner Group, a U.S. business technology consulting firm.
"We expect there will be some kind of virus attack. When systems fail, administrators might not think of a virus and head off on a wild goose chase in order to solve the problem." --Sal Viveros, Network Associates (NETA) group marketing manager for the Total Virus Defense Product, which includes McAfee VirusScan
"Y2K is the ultimate challenge for a virus author. What better time to unleash a virus than when everyone is watching?" --Sal Viveros, Network Associates (NETA) group marketing manager for the Total Virus Defense Product, which includes McAfee VirusScan
"There will be no dysfunction in the reactors, nor any other mishap, despite the predictions of the CIA" -- Yevgeny Adamov, Russia's Nuclear Energy Minister, commenting on year 2000 compliancy.
"There are some concerns that, out of fear, investors may try to make dramatic changes in their accounts at the end of the year, there is absolutely no reason to do that. It's not as if money and stocks are going to suddenly disappear." -- Martha Manco, director of year-2000 communications for the National Association of Securities Dealers.
"Ukraine is the safest place in the world to celebrate New Year a nd Christmas" -- Serhiy Yermilov, first deputy minister on the power industry in the Ukraine.
"The good news is there's no news this morning." -- Sen. Robert Bennett (R-Utah), chairman of the Senate Special Committee on the Year 2000 Technology Problem on September 10, floowing 9/9/99 concerns.
"We caution investors on the risks inherent in the state of Y2K readiness in Indonesia, India, China and Thailand," -- Sean Debow, head of regional valuation and accounting research at Warburg.
"There’s no need to bury cash in your back yard. There’s no need to stuff twenty-dollar bills under your mattress" -- Philip Valvardi president, Money Access Service Inc.
"The large number of participants in the Internet community make it impossible to rule out the existence of date change problems." -- John Koskinen, who heads up White House Y2K readiness efforts. Koskinen met with Internet experts August 17 to discuss the possible impact the Y2K problem might have on Internet operations.
"The Internet will route around the damage." -- Donald Heath, president of the Internet Society , which oversees the development of technology standards used throughout the Internet, borrowing from a well-worn Internet maxim.
"The Internet is not a monolith. We have no way of knowing or verifying the preparedness of individual providers. -- Barbara Dooley, president of the Commercial Internet Exchange Association.
"Many companies don't have a clear idea how to address Y2K. Little importance has been attached to embedded systems, especially at large-scale, state-owned enterprises." -- Zhang Qi, the official in charge of China's Y2K preparation.
"It's not a question of safety; it's not a question of planes falling out of the sky;”". -- Nancy Gautier, communications manager of the International Air Transport Association, Year 2000 project on how the millenium bug will not pose a safety risk for airline passengers but more likely, will cause irksome inconveniences like flight delays or long waits for baggage.
"Some failures may not become obvious until the end of January, the first time after the date rollover that consumers review their monthly bank statements, credit-card bills and other financial paperwork. It won't evaporate until after that. Clearly, this is more than a January 1 problem. None of us are really going to know until after Jan. 1." -- John Koskinen, Chairman of the President's Council on Year 2000 Conversion.
"I think you will have a far greater chance of losing your money if you take it out than if you leave it in." Those who withdraw their money to guard against possible havoc by the so-called millennium bug will risk falling prey to a new cottage industry, Greenspan predicted. "There will be a new industry that will emerge as a consequence, it will be millennium thievery,'' " -- Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan July 28 to the Senate Banking Committee.
"I'm very confident that the department will be able to carry out its missions as we cross over into the new millennium,'' -- Defense Secretary William Cohen told a news conference on the Pentagon's $3.7 billion Y2K preparedness project. He said 100% of the department's computers will be ready by Dec. 31.
"The scenario could be possible by the convergence of two pervasive but unrelated forces. The fact that the world's financial systems have largely migrated to an electronically interconnected model; and that virtually every line of code, every interconnection, and every computer involved in the process will have been opened, tested and possibly changed to support remediation efforts. The irony, is that the person saving the day, after a security-related disaster, may end up pilfering the loot." -- Joe Pucciarelli, GartnerGroup analyst, regarding the Gartner report -- "Year 2000 and the Expanded Risk of Financial Fraud" - which speaks of the potential loss of billions of dollars
“"I'm very concerned, I think the Y2K experience has opened our eyes as a society to how vulnerable we are. If (Y2K) could cause this kind of disruption by accident, what kind of disruption could we have if someone sought to do us harm on purpose?" ” -- Sen. Robert Bennett, R-Utah, co-chairman of the Senate Special Committee on Year 2000.
"Whether by bombing a jetliner or attacking crowds in (New York’s) Times Square, it’s almost certain the Year 2000 will be ushered in with a major terrorist attack,” -- said Neil Livingstone of GlobalOptions, as the Washington company is called.
"We've finally broken the back of the Y2K problem."
"What do I mean when I state confidently we've broken the back of Year 2000 problem? In short, I mean we've overcome the largest Y2K hurdle. The Y2K problem was never the actual act of fixing the code, it was the inaction and denial regarding a problem so easily demonstrated as real and pressing, and possessing consequences far exceeding it's humble beginnings." Peter de Jager's "Doomsday Avoided" article published March 1st.
"Corporate America by and large is doing a good job of protecting against Y2K... I think that in the United States, the major companies have spent the money, the time, to protect us.". -- U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Arthur Levitt.
"I don't think any country will completely meet the deadline. Even in countries that are the most far along in Y2K readiness, there will be some kind of disruption". -- Bruce McConnell, director of the International Y2K Cooperation Center in New York.
"I'm afraid we're starting this a little late". -- a chastened cabinet undersecretary Franco Bassanini told a news conference while launching the Committee for the Year 2000 in january 99.
"This is a Latin characteristic, we wait for the last day, but it gets done". -- -- Xavier Vida, who heads millennium-bug preparation for La Caixa, Spain's biggest savings bank, following a study by Cap Gemini where Spain tops the list in last minute Y2K spending.
Advertising
"We have not generated a dime yet," Ethan Russman marketing director of Angeltips.com which is paying $2 million fo Super Bowl exposure with startup money it has raised mostly from European and Asian investors.
Linux
"Linux.com exemplifies the spirit of community involvement around this movement. "We are preparing for continued Linux demand and mainstream adoption of the popular operating system (OS). -- Dr. Larry Augustin, VA VA Linux Systems President and CEO
"People have sometimes worried that it is 'unprofessional' to use profanity, but if you think professionals don't swear you've either been living in a monastery or playing golf your whole life." -- -- Linus Torvalds, one of the most successful open source programs ever, telling his disciples not to worry about profanity in the Linux code base.
"I wanted to make sure no one could take it and make it into some commercial playground," -- Van Kempen, on the sale of the internet domain «linux.com».
E-Mail
“Companies are scared. E-mail has the psychological equivalent of a voice conversation but the unfortunate legal equivalence of a written conversation.” - - Bruce Schneier President of Counterpane Systems Inc.
"There are thousands of cases where people have gotten in trouble because of their e-mail. They'll send out e-mail without any thoughts of the consequences of what they are saying. That's well and good, but those words have a way of coming back and hitting you in the face." --Leo Scheiner, CEO of Internet venture Global Markets Ltd. -- the owner of Web-based e-mail start-up 1on1.
"People don't sugarcoat. They don't sweet talk it. They just tell it like it is" when using e-mail" -- Stephanie Watts Sussman, co-author of a study that suggests that the unenviable task of bearing bad news is easier - and the information gets delivered more accurately - when done by e-mail rather than face-to-face or on the telephone.
"The world is becoming more and more intrusive.Consequently, you are becoming more pressed to get back to more people - it becomes a barrier to doing the job you are paid for." -- Dr Simon Moore, a computer industry consultant .
"People online feel good about themselves, and there's an instant buzz when you're in a chat room or you get an e-mail and it goes on behind people's backs." -- Dr Mark Griffiths, one of the Britian's leading researchers into Internet.
Internet Appliances
"Networked'' products -- personal digital assistants and pagers -- were helping to shift the focus from the personal computers made by IBM and others. "The PC itself isn't dead, but it's no longer occupying center stage," -- BM chief executive officer Louis Gerstner in his keynote speech at TELECOM 99
"The PC era is over." -- IBM Chief Executive Louis Gerstner declared in a letter to shareholders, in a clear sign that the world's biggest computer maker sees a serious challenge to the existing order.
"The development and adoption of Internet appliances will explode during the next 12 months." -- investment bank Hambrecht & Quist said in a new report released April 9.
"The Internet isn't really a medium -- it's a transport mechanism. And it's not going to be limited to the PC for very long." -- Nicholas Donatiello of Odyssey research
"Today we set a new direction for computing and devices for years to come. I'd like you to look forward to a new age of simplicity" -- Sun chief operating officer Ed Zander after unveiled Jini, and declaring the easy-to-use networking technology will triumphantly carry the company into the world of consumer electronics.
Telephony
"People thought I was crazy to think that cellular, mobile phones you could carry around in your hand would be successful. Now, the idea of cellular phones seems trivial,
obvious'' -- Dr. Martin Cooper - father of cell phone technology.
"IP telephony still has limited exposure and has been relegated to computer hackers. This deal moves it up to a bigger universe of potential customers." -- Analyst Ken Landoline, of Giga Information Group, on Netscape's bundling of Net2Phone's Net2Speak Internet telephony software as part of its next-generation Communicator Web browser.
Media
"Using this retail sales channel is a strategic way to extend the Journal's online offering to potential new readers." -- Tom Baker, vice president and general manager of the Interactive Journal,on Staples selling subscriptions to The Dow Jones' Wall Street Interactive Edition. expanding to all 800 Staples outlets.
"At their best, Weblogs are both content providers and context providers for the mass of information available on the Web. At their worst, they're exercises in vanity, giving us the illusion that we've done something valuable by copying and pasting a link." -- Steve Bogart, creator of Weblog nowthis.com
"We're hoping to differentiate ourselves from the many other purveyors of news on the Web. Rather than going with wire service journalism, which is fine and we all use it, but we want to use the Post (WPO) reporters' efforts when and where we can. Not all of our users know we constantly refresh the site. Our focus groups tell us that." -- Washingtonpost.com editor Douglas Feaver
"We think these kinds of payment options are more in keeping with the Web, which is about periodic surfing behavior" -- D. Chase Franklin, chief executive of Qpass - on the Wall Street Journals new "daily edition" subscription.
Music
"The Copyright Act was designed to protect publishers. They insist that they still own most of the music in the world. I think music is the common property of humanity." -- John Perry Barlow, chairman of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
Online Trading
While consumers may be attracted to online trading because of lower fees, they clearly indicate that customer support and the integrity and reputation of their online provider are imperatives to nurturing their loyalty. Schwab and Fidelity attract online investors who tend to have more investment experience, are older and are more affluent based on income and investment portfolio size" -- Nancy Salk, senior research manager at J.D. Power and Assoc."I certainly hope this doesn't ruin your trading day". -- Mark Barton, before his shooting spree in in the Atlanta office of All-tech Investment Group.
"It's much too simplistic to blame it on the stock market, a termination, a divorce, a breakup.These are time bombs. They take months, years to detonate.". -- Mike Rustigan, professor of criminology at San Francisco State University, after Mark Barton, ex-trader went on a murder rampage in two Atlanta brokerage offices Thursday.
"He was a customer until a couple of months ago and then he went to another firm to trade. We're going through his account now to determine what his trading gains and losses were". -- Linda Lerner, an attorney for All-Tech Investment Group, a day-trading firm Mark Barton once used.
"There comes a point in time where we have to accept the fact that people have to have some responsibility for getting themselves into trouble. When you walk into a casino and put your life savings on the craps table, you don't get it back just because you claim that the casino shouldn't have let you place the bet." -- Bill Singer, an attorney with Singer Frumento in New York
"Most of these companies will never have earnings. They just can't survive in the real world. A lot of these Internet stocks are not formed as companies, they're formed as stocks." "If you want to look at a regular stock you go to either a financial analyst or an economist. If you want to value Internet stock, you go to a psychologist or publicist,"-- Michael Bloomberg told the American Chamber of Commerce in Singapore June 23.
''Right now it's hang on to the rocket ship and giggle all the way to the moon" -- Mark Shafir, investment banker in California, on the continuing obession with Internet related stocks.
"Investors should be empowered to make their own trading decisions. We believe investor education, not new regulation, is the best response to issues raised by day trading and recent volatile market conditions." -- Hardy Collcott, Schwab general counsel, told the Senate Finance, Investment and International Trade Committee on March 10.
"Some people say trading is kind of considered gambling." -- Trudi Sprague, a consultant for the Senate Finance, Investment and International Trade Committee
"We're no longer a nation of savers, we're a nation of investors. With growth in on-line investing, more and more people, I fear, are entering the market with unrealistic expectations, that is absolutely a prescription for disaster." -- Chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Arthur Levitt.
"As you move closer and closer to retirement you move to less and less risky assets. If you have everything in equities, if you have everything in Internet stocks, you're in real trouble" --Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan.
E-Banking
"We can't have highly paid people working for us during the day and a bunch of dummies at night,'' -- Bear Stearns Cos. Inc.'s Chairman Alan ''Ace'' Greenberg at a securities industry conference at Pace University in New York in october,, sharing his contrarian view on the future of share trading, saying his investment bank was against extending trading hours and starting a Web Brokerage.
"Most banks mistakenly see the Internet as just a futuristic delivery channel. What we are talking about is a paradigm quake that we believe will rattle the entire banking industry." " --Angus Hislop, a senior banking partner at PriceWaterhouse Coopers
E-Commerce
"The customer comes first. Wake up every morning terrified - not of the competition but of our customers" -- Jeff Bezos, Chairman and CEO Amazon.com giving a speech to his staff, on the Six Core Values: "customer obsession, ownership. bias for action, frugality, high hiring bar and innovation"
"The funeral industry is the last to use the Internet and computers -- '' -- Howard Weiser - Founder HeavenlyDoor.com
"Our sympathy goes out to him and anyone with a terminal illness. We wish him every bit of success, but you just can't sell body parts under (U.S.) federal law.'' -- Kevin Pursglove, eBay's spokesperson on aCanadian AIDS victim who tried to auction the rights to his corpse on the Internet after he dies of AIDS.
Sixteen months ago, we were a place we could come to find books. Tomorrow, we will be a place to find anything, with a capital A." ” - - Jeff Bezos, Amazon's founder and chief executive introducing zShops.
"Full functional kidney for sale. You can choose either kidney. Buyer pays all transplant and medical costs. Of course only one for sale, as I need the other to live" -- Description of human organ for sale on eBay, the Internet Auction site. Bidding hit 5.7 million before the company was alerted and put a stop to it
"Six and a half years ago, there were just 50 Web sites around the world. Today there are more than 6 million. Today, information technology is changing the way we live, learn, work and shop." -- Vice President Al Gore, in a speech on the campaign trail.
The sheer lack of penetration in the minds of most Americans is really the most stunning finding you can have. Even with all the attention paid in the media there's no particular brand that's captured their hearts and minds." -- Ben Black, director of business development at Harris Interactiveon Internet brands. Despite screaming Net hype, a new Harris Interactive poll
has revealed that online consumers are oblivious to most online retailers and that branding initiatives have, for many fledgling companies, flopped.
"The sheer lack of penetration in the minds of most Americans is really the most stunning finding you can have. Even with all the attention paid in the media there's no particular brand that's captured their hearts and minds." -- Ben Black, director of business development at Harris Interactive. Despite screaming Net hype, a new Harris Interactive poll called ecommercePulse released June 29, has revealed that online consumers are oblivious to most online retailers and that branding initiatives have, for many fledgling companies
"The Internet infrastructure will be to the economy of the 21st century like oil has been to the 20th century. Computer bits are the oil of the Internet economy." -- Craig Barret , the chairman of Intel Corp., speaking at a Wall Street Journal Technology Conference in London, on June 22.
"Amazon never confirms or denies what we may or may not be doing in the future." -- Amazon spokesman Bill Curry on the company's rumored plan to offer free digital downloads of many artists' songs and is taking steps to open an online toy store within a month or so.
"I think that's one of the most misunderstood things about e-commerce. There aren't going to be a few winners. There are going to be tens of thousands of winners." -- Jeff Bezos in an interview withBusiness Week dated May 31.
"We started with commerce, and what grew out of that was community." "I think eBay has created an environment that didn't exist in the land-based world".." -- Meg Whitman in an interview with Business Week dated May 31.
"Our proposed legislation will do this. It will start removing the legal barriers to using electronic means, instead of pens and paper. It will also enhance confidence in the technologies which people can use to ensure that others cannot read their credit card data when shopping online and businesses can ensure that sensitive information is not being read by competitors." -- UK Trade Secretary Stephen Byers.
"An attack on American cyberspace is an attack on the United States, just as much as a landing on New Jersey. The notion that we could respond with military force against a cyberattack has to be accepted." Rep. Curtis Weldon, R-Penn.
AOL
"The nerds have won. This deal really validates the Internet" -- David Readerman, managing director of Thomass Weisel Partners, a San Francisco investment firm on the $172 billion merger of Internet Provider America Online and Time Warner.
"We really have two very strong software competitors going forward -- one that wants to give away software in order to gain subscribers, and the other that wants to give away subscriptions in order to gather software sales," -- Dawn Simon, anaylst at Brown Brothers Harriman, who feels the competition between AOL and Microsoft is heating up.
"Our goal is to establish AOL as a more important part of tens of millions of people's everyday life, and to do that, we have to move beyond the P.C. in the den." -- Stephen M. Case, America Online's chairman.
Yahoo!
”We intend to remain independent and partner broadly in a business context with a whole bunch of companies worldwide' -- Jim Koogle told reporters after a speech to a technology conference in Washington in September.
”Overall I think they addressed all the concerns that the majority of us were boycotting over. The new terms-of-service agreement is clear, short, to the point.' Jim Townsend, an Internet-software developer who was one of the prime forces behind the Yahoo boycott. He added that he was impressed that Yahoo modified its agreement ”very quickly -- much quicker than I would have thought possible."
CyberTerrorism
"Companies and private-sector entities are the new targets for terrorism and acts of war. This is a problem that's really spreading rapidly and will affect all of us." -- Michael Vatis, director of the FBI's national infrastructure protection center
"It's not a matter of if America has an electronic Pearl Harbor -- it's a matter of when," Rep. Curtis Weldon, R-Penn.
"An attack on American cyberspace is an attack on the United States, just as much as a landing on New Jersey. The notion that we could respond with military force against a cyberattack has to be accepted." Rep. Curtis Weldon, R-Penn.
Internet
"Like F.D.R.'s fireside chats and President Kennedy's live press conferences, this first presidential town hall meeting on the Internet taps the most modern technology for old-fashioned communication between the American people and their president. --President Clinton on his first live Chat on the Internet November 8.
"We made a mistake in not being clear enough to our users about what kinds of data was being generated and transmitted. Theofficials ''deeply apologize. --Rob Glaser, RealNetwork's chief executive
"Doing things a little bit at a time is a recipe for failure in the Internet space. The reality is that the other guys in this space just don't have the guts." -- Michael Fenne, Pixelon's chairman and founder justifyinga 10 million bash launch party after raising 23 million.
"At their best, Weblogs are both content providers and context providers for the mass of information available on the Web. At their worst, they're exercises in vanity, giving us the illusion that we've done something valuable by copying and pasting a link." -- Steve Bogart, creator of Weblog nowthis.com
"In this race to be the store.com of the day, drugstore.com is forgetting some marketing basics -- in the long term, generics never succeed. Human consumers buy brand names. How do you distinguish yourself when Walgreens or CVS shows up online? Athol M. Foden , Name Trade naming director.
"The new license plates - www.state.pa.us - will make it easer for law enforcement to identify cars, and they'll advertise our high-tech, high-energy New Pennsylvania' to the world."-- Pa Gov. Ridge
"I would argue that any popular hue and cry over the ruinous results of Net addiction is misplaced. The greater and far more pervasive menace is Net phobia -- irrational fear of all that lies on down the wire. I'd wager that for every person who cannot bring themselves to log off there are 10 others suffering needlessly because they're afraid to log on." -- David Plotnikoff - wired-life writer for the San Jose Mercury News
"Most Internet "addicts" I know are just as passionate about and immersed in other aspects of their lives - family, hobbies, civic interests - as they are with the Net. [...] Moreover, any negatives of the Internet are vastly overwhelmed by its positives. The economic opportunities, potential for meeting (and marrying) like minds, and ameliorative social impacts of the Internet far outweigh a marginal 6 percent minus factor. Equating the Internet with gambling, which has no "The Internet must have laws governing it. It cannot be a savage world where everybody can do as they please." -- Marceau Dechamps, vice president of the group Defense of the French Language.
"In 1982 you could diagram the whole Internet on one sheet of paper" -- Vint Cerf said, holding up a diagram that did just that, at the "Technical History of the Internet" gathering September 2nd, celebrating the Internet's 30th birthday.
"It was as big as a refrigerator and built like a tank. It also had practically no memory and no operating system" -- Engineer Dave Walden recalls an ARPANET- connected computer.
"Ultimately, the domain name system is about your ability to be seen and heard in the digital age" -- Andrew L. Shapiro, a senior advisor to the Markle Foundation
"Human civilization is at the beginning of a profound change, the likes of which has only been seen three or four times before."
"The Internet is what is ushering in this change in a revolution comparable to the Agrarian and Industrial Revolutions."
The only thing we can be sure about is that we don't know where all this is headed"
"This change will take place in our generation, 40 percent of U.S. economic growth is now coming from the Internet. "-- Ira Magaziner, a former Clinton adviser who helped shape the Clinton administration's current policies on the digital age, in his keynote address to SAP TechEd Monday.
"I think people are going to start to realize that the Internet is a lot like real life.You have to be careful." -- John Sharp, an AOL associate community producer from PlanetOut, af ter a recent syphilis outbreak in San Francisco was traced back to a chat room on America Online.
"Marriages are being disrupted, kids are getting into trouble, people are committing illegal acts, people are spending too much money, As someone who treats patients, I see it.." -- Psychologist David Greenfield, who conducted the study on Internet Addiction for ABC.
"Inexpensive hidden cameras are part of a ''third wave'' of technological advances that are changing how we live - the first two being inexpensive computer processors and inexpensive computer networks. Society must recognize that small-camera technology exists and decide what to do about it. Act early or you may lose your chance. You may end up in a world you do not want.'' Jonathan Zittrain, executive director of Harvard University Law School's Berkman Center for Internet and Society
"Neither the United Nations nor UNDP has the mandate or power to create or administer any global taxation system," -- a UN spokesman said July 15, backing away on the United Nations report in which it recommended Internet email taxes to help developing nations.
The growth in new Internet users, particularly in regions like Europe and Asia, has been phenomenal.Yet the millions of active net users today represent only 2.2 percent of the world's total population of 5.9 billion.' Geoffrey Ramsey, chief statistician at eMarketer
"The key to better serving American families is not through more regulations on the cable industry - or more regulations on anyone - but to make sure that there is real, vigorous competition." -- William E. Kennard, Chairman FCC Chairman Weighs In On America's Broadband Future
"I would ask for the government's forbearance in any effort to regulate the Internet, and I would ask for help; help in creating a solid framework that will help us to conduct e-commerce" around the globe -- Vint Cerf fielding one more question after his keynote address at the E-Gov trade show in Washington, D.C., June 29.
The Internet is a great equalizer, putting people with disabilities on an equal footing with people without disabilities." -- Frederick Allan Fay, a USA leading disability-rights activist.
"Six and a half years ago, there were just 50 Web sites around the world. Today there are more than 6 million. Today, information technology is changing the way we live, learn, work and shop." -- Vice President Al Gore, in a speech on the campaign trail.
''I'm inviting everyone from all over the world with the slightest interest in chess to play me. I expect this to be a high-quality match and most probably at some point I will have to come up with some kind of novelty move in order to win." Gary Kasparov in an interview Sunday in New York before the start of the chess challenge hosted by IBM: "Kasparov vs the World".
''The report ny the Henley Center shows we are at the rapid innovation stage of a revolution - just before it takes off in earnest. The Internet is actually being under-hyped, rather than over-hyped." -- James Richardson, Cisco's European president
''I'm embarrassed at how difficult it is..." "It's not supposed to be a glorified television channel, I had hoped that the Web would be a tool for understanding each other..." "We used to say the Web would mimic the world but, in fact, it ended up being the world.''- Tim Berners-Lee at a lunch celebrating the 35th anniversary of the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science in Cambridge, Mass.
"The goal is to do it year by year, stay with the same families and watch the migration and the change in attitudes." -- Jeffrey Cole -- the study’s principal investigator and director of the UCLA Center for Communication Policy. (The Internet’s impact on society, from its effect on families to how it’s changing the world economy, will be tracked in an unprecedented study funded in part by rivals America Online and Microsoft. The project announced June 7 by the University of California, Los Angeles, will follow not only computer and Internet use but also nonusage in the United States and other countries for at least a generation. )
"During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet" -- Al Gore when asked to cite accomplishments that separate him from another Democratic presidential hopeful, former Sen. Bill Bradley of New Jersey.
"Gore did not technically create the Internet, but without him there is a good chance it would not be where it is today" -- Dave Farber, a professor of telecommunications at the University of Pennsylvania
Viruses
"The real question," he said of whoever wrote the Melissa virus, "is whether we're dealing with someone more akin to a graffiti artist or to an international cyberterrorist." -- Edward F. Borden Jr. defending his client David L. Smith's, the 30-year-old computer programmer accused of creating the fastest-spreading computer virus in history
"I think it is safe to say that we are now in the early stages of a new computing environment, when the viruses are much more deadly and effective and are made not by kids in the garage, but by governments and corporations." -- Mark Anderson, president of Technology Alliance Partners
E-Romance
"In real life, Internet courtship is like making the rounds of the singles bars - but blindfolded and on another planet." -- Dianne Lynch in an article for ABCNEWS
DOJ vs Microsoft / Bill Gates
"My new role will allow me to spend almost 100 percent of my time on new software technologies" U.S. Bill Gates - Chairman and Chief Software Architect Microsoft.
"I think it would be absolutely reckless and irresponsible for anyone to try to break up this company. I think it would be unprecedented and the single greatest disservice to consumers in this country." --Steve Ballmer chief executive of Microsoft Corp. at a news conference at Microsoft's Redmond, Wash., headquarters.
" Microsoft enjoys monopoly power in the relevant market." U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson in his "finding of fact" statement issued November 5.
"As this case moves toward resolution, Microsoft's 30,000 employees are focused on creating the next generation of products that will deliver the benefits of the Information Age - anytime, anywhere and on any device --
"Microsoft is committed to resolving this matter in a fair and responsible manner," he wrote, "while ensuring that the fundamental principles of consumer benefit and innovation are protected."Bill Gates's letter addressed to the company's customers, partners and shareholders commenting on Friday's ruling by U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson.
"From a "PC in every home, on every desktop" to "Anytime, Anyplace on Any Device"'' -- Bill Gates on Microsoft's new vision and new direction in his keynote address at TELECOM99 in october. .
"I mean, I have a job" -- Bill Gates who donated $ 1 billion to minority students' scholarships, remarking on why he only has five to ten hours a week to spend on philanthropy.
Computers will take many forms, but there will always be a place for the all-purpose
machine we've come to depend on. -- Bill Gates in Newsweek.
"I have a simple but strong belief, how you gather, manage and use information will determine whether ou win or lose -- Bill Gates in his new book «Business @ the Speed of Thought»
"The successful companies of the next decade will be the ones that use digital tools to reinvent the way they work. These companies will make decisions quickly, act efficiently, and directly touch their customers in positive ways." -- Bill Gates in his new book «Business @ the Speed of Thought»
E-Philanthropy
"Technology will change philanthropy. Nonprofits are at the risk of being left on the wrong side of the digital divide." -- Pete Mountanos, a former Microsoft executive who now heads Charitableway.com, an online charity clearinghouse
Transmeta
"I think I can now tell you when I will be able to tell you. The company has considered saying something at Comdex, or at least saying when we will announce something." " -- Linus Torvalds on Transmeta.com, the industry's most secretive startup.
Sex Online
"The Internet can become ''the crack [cocaine] of sexual compulsivity.'' -- Alvin Cooper, a San Jose psychologist
"Remember, the Web is experiencus interruptus -- point and click, point and click. You have to learn how to create a compelling experience online." -- Mark Hardie, senior analyst with Forrester Research.
"The mainstream media have a lot to learn about the cooperation and collaboration that works so well within the adult industry.." -- Cyberporn guru Mike Tiarra, the 29-year-old president of the trade association of adult Web sites, United Adult Sites.
"On the Net, people feel like they belong, like someone misses them. These people are not in good relationships to begin with and they don't feel like anyone cares about them." -- Maressa Hecht Orzack, a psychologist and founder of the Computer Addiction Service at McLean Hospital in Belmont.
"Instead of working to improve the intimacy in their relationship, many people are a lot more revealing about themselves to perfect strangers on line. That takes the energy away from their real relationship." -- Margaret Strauss-Black, a marriage and family therapist in Framingham.
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