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CARLY FIORINA![]()
So many dot-com companies were formulated on air.
WILLIAM SHATNER![]()
Remember, 2000 was the year of the dot-com bust. The telecom industry lost about $2 trillion in mark...
MO IBRAHIM As financial services companies step up spending on security to meet rising threat levels, IT securi...
ANN SWAIN![]()
I knew what a Roth IRA was at 17. I learned about it in economics class. My generation is much more ...
JENNIFER HUDSON Gateway hasn't fully recovered from the dot-com bust.
CAIT MURPHY For Web-based services, owning the .com is very important when considering search and discovery. But...
DAVID RUSENKO During dark times, real entrepreneurs come out. They are not competing with 10 look-alike companies ...
DOUGLAS LEONE 2006 could be the year when the ghosts of the dot-com era are finally laid to rest and IT pay in the...
ANN SWAIN We were coming back (in 2002) and not a lot of guys were heralded as big time players and we were fl...
MIKE AYERS America had been a boom-and-bust economy going into the Great Depression - just over and over and ov...
ELIZABETH WARREN![]()
For a really long time, I thought being different was a negative thing. But as I grew older, I start...
HALIMA ADEN There was a big downturn in business, partly when the Jewish people left. The other thing too, is pr...
GEORGE BURROWS It's quite a job shift, but I guess after the dot-com burst... it really has worked out in a very un...
JOE ELFORD We were really close all tournament and we felt we had a chance to win it. We were able to play in t...
DONNIE DARR And Seattle isn't really crazy anymore. It's a big dot-com city.
KRIST NOVOSELIC A lot of (points) were out of transition. The girls were just very aggressive defensively in the sec...
PETER ARNOLD You've got to take into account the studies were done before 9/11, before the dot-com industry went ...
STEVE HOGAN I grew up at a time with androgyny in the 1980s; it was easy to pass under the radar as a gay may.
ALEXIS ARQUETTE It is very similar to companies like Google and other internet companies. When you go and search on ...
NIKLAS ZENNSTROM [These days, it may be easier to raise startup money than it was during the boom. No, it doesn't see...
GEOFFREY MOORE When we started Skype, if you look at analyst reports, no one forecasted it as a big business. Also ...
NIKLAS ZENNSTROM We basically ran together for a real long time. We were both working off each other and it was real ...
HEATHER STEPHENS![]()
But maybe because the dot-com world gives people positions at a younger age, and many women are prom...
CHRISTIE HEFNER I could really sense (a swing). We were grinding and we were grinding and then they got a couple of ...
SARUNAS JASIKEVICIUS Skeptics will point to other waves of innovations in the past, but things are happening at lightning...
JAMES GLASSMAN![]()
So, for example, a country was into recession right after I was sworn in, a dot-com bust had taken p...
GEORGE W. BUSH![]()
Some say Google is God. Others say Google is Satan. But if they think Google is too powerful, rememb...
SERGEY BRIN![]()
The kind of environment that we developed Google in, the reason that we were able to develop a searc...
SERGEY BRIN![]()
When we first started our internet company, 'China Pages', in 1995, and we were just making ...
JACK MA What's really happening is a restructuring. There are companies spread out all over the valley that ...
DOUG HENTON I have never seen it so good. The real dot-com boom is here. The [railroad] track is in the ground, ...
BRIAN HALLA It was during Auburn preparation. It was a Tuesday. We were getting ready for practice. Around lunch...
ANDREW WHITWORTH It really was a long process. We started filming in 2003 and finished editing in early 2005. But we ...
JOHN SIKES![]()
You have perhaps waited for years to be freed from some need. For a long, long time you have looked ...
EBERHARD ARNOLD It looks eerily similar to the boom days. A slew of new Internet companies are competing across a wh...
GIAN FULGONI And it's interesting, when you look at the predictions made during the peak of the boom in the 1...
CHRIS ANDERSON At the height of the first great dot-com boom, Craig Kanarick, then in his early 30s, was running Ra...
DAVID SAX Guns, she was reminded then, were not for girls. They were for boys. They were invented by boys. The...
LORRIE MOORE It was a good game. We started out behind in the first quarter and then the second and third were pr...
BRUCE MOORE Recently, the Google Internet search "Diwali greetings" was the second-most popular search worldwide...
JUNE PRESZLER The hotel and the characters under its roof serve as a microcosm for what was happening in the count...
EMILIO ESTEVEZ It took us a long time to find out that we had been lied to by our parents' generation. The mora...
PETER FONDA Most of our teachers were white, and the songs that they taught us were white, so when we first star...
CLARENCE FOUNTAIN![]()
Bonobo studies started in the '70s and came to fruition in the '80s. Then in the '90s, a...
FRANS DE WAAL Virtually every major technology has an initial spike of interest, then a dip, and then a long-term ...
BALAJI SRINIVASAN![]()
The numbers really grew when we were at war, when all the fellas who used to be inside their homes w...
DREXEL DEAL It was pretty amazing. At first, the person who answered the door would be incredulous, like they we...
RUDY PERKINS We were all very anxious and nervous about the conference actually happening, but once everything st...
WENDY CHEUNG There was that period of time, everybody had told me about six months, before you really got it. It ...
ANDREA SNYDER The dot-com logic of paying big prices to enter new markets has come roaring back,
GREG STERLING![]()
During the dot-com days, one could take just about any company public and reap fortunes. All you had...
VIVEK WADHWA They were saying they were coming in to take the Big East. I don't see that happening.
DEE MCCANN![]()
Competitors argue that Google rigs its search algorithms to demote listings for competing search eng...
MARVIN AMMORI We first started out in a man and for some reason we weren't rotating and they were screening and cu...
DANNY STARKEY But if you look at WorldCom, which is the biggest failure to date, they grew dramatically, they were...
DON NICKLES![]()
As so often happened during the dot-com bubble days, the revenues that AOL and PurchasePro were coun...
JAMES COMEY We really cooperate now - it used to not be that way. It used to be, they were the cops. They were g...
LEE MURPHY (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes...
JEAN SASSON![]()
The house I grew up in was a tall Victorian town house in Bristol. There were very big rooms, which ...
PHILIPPA GREGORY They were the No. 2 seed, it was in their gym and their fans were really loud, but I was really prou...
HERB GRACE![]()
My love for cooking began when I was young. Because my parents were in the army, they were both real...
TIA MOWRY They were off most people's radar for a long time and we were constantly hearing from smaller retail...
MICHAEL ATMORE![]()
One time, Bert and I were making out for so long it wasn't even funny..But then it was funny.
GERARD WAY Our big guys really stepped it up late and took it to the hoop. Early on they were in too much of a ...
SETH RICE The relay team was ranked sixth going in, so they performed where they were supposed to. We were hop...
DANA SCHWARTING When you watch the sitcoms that were the big hits when I was growing up, TV was still just TV. It wa...
DAN HARMON During my years of professional cricket in England, I realised that although the Australians were ta...
GLENN TURNER This is a boom time for Buddhism in China. Many of the monasteries that were shut down and destroyed...
GLEN MULLIN You wouldn't think it would but my parents were really balanced about that. When it came time fo...
ELMER BERNSTEIN We use our enterprise search engine everywhere throughout the company. We've had enterprise search s...
JEFF WATTS When the dot-com bubble burst, we wanted to develop something we were passionate about. We saw succe...
CASIE CALDWELL Back then, I could be as obnoxious as I liked and people would still come back for more, they had to...
BENJAMIN COHEN![]()
They were just people who were deeply in love with each other and couldn't be together at first. He ...
JUNE CARTER CASH 787 basically wiped out most of the islands that were close to Albany. When they built 787, they fil...
DON RITTNER![]()
Then we got another letter saying, 'OK, we're back in the business. Then we started going back to Lu...
CARL ROGERS I'm a big believer in size, ... When you're a smaller company, as we were 27 years ago when I starte...
JOHN LAMATTINA It started out as a class project and the guidelines of the project were basically to organize group...
BETHANY PALMER![]()
I grew up in kind of the last generation of Canadians who thought things that were happening in Brit...
ROBERT MACNEIL![]()
Everybody looked at (Ito) and said invincible. Then slowly during that two-week period of time befor...
SCOTT HAMILTON![]()
Even companies that do big business online struggle to be noticed by Google users. The Web, after al...
JASON FRIED (Snowflake) hit the ball really well. They were able to put the ball in play, and we threw a couple ...
RAMON MORALES The kids started to put it together in the third. There were a lot of freshmen and sophomores that I...
JEFF NEESE![]()
I had studied Russian in college. I had gotten into it first through literature and then just really...
SCOTT SHANE![]()
Greatness is the amount of time you were able to invest into cultivating your ground.
SUNDAY ADELAJA![]()
Death was silence, loss, guilt. And anger. But life led that way, anyway. From birth, it was a slow,...
MICHELLE SAGARA WEST All things considered, it was a good quarter, particularly in light of what's been happening with th...
TOM MORABITO They play with each other pretty well. The press has bothered us all year, and we were able to capit...
HARRY MASCH 'The Practice' is one of my favorite shows of all time, and the first few seasons of that sh...
ALEC BERG I was just fortunate I was able to throw when I came back, ... After Ted Williams ran into a wall (d...
AL KALINE Priest got her fourth foul early in the third quarter. We had to play a quarter of time without her....
BRIAN BLUME![]()
I was lucky enough to be given books that weren't top sellers; books that were kind of under the...
BILL SIENKIEWICZ![]()
It was confusing pretending to be completely different people, particularly because it had been so l...
LEMONY SNICKET When the objects were presented in a sparse array, search times to find the target were similar for ...
MARY BRAVO Knowing you were right down the hall was way too hard. I couldn’t do it,” Evan declared, sliding...
REBECCA DONOVAN It is frustrating that we haven't had a tournament in such a long time. There were all sorts of prom...
JANICE MOODIE [Analysts were stunned by Porsche's move, which they said was a radical departure for a traditionall...
ARNDT ELLINGHORST It was big, especially how we started the game. We came out really sluggish, but stuck with it, so t...
BEN GORDON I thought Google was the coolest place. People there were so smart and they were all doing these rea...
BEN SILBERMANN They brought to our attention problems where out-of-state companies -- mostly construction companies...
ANDY MCKENZIE
CARLY FIORINA
So many dot-com companies were formulated on air. WILLIAM SHATNER
Remember, 2000 was the year of the dot-com bust. The telecom industry lost about $2 trillion in mark... MO IBRAHIM As financial services companies step up spending on security to meet rising threat levels, IT securi...
ANN SWAIN
I knew what a Roth IRA was at 17. I learned about it in economics class. My generation is much more ... JENNIFER HUDSON Gateway hasn't fully recovered from the dot-com bust.
CAIT MURPHY For Web-based services, owning the .com is very important when considering search and discovery. But...
DAVID RUSENKO During dark times, real entrepreneurs come out. They are not competing with 10 look-alike companies ...
DOUGLAS LEONE 2006 could be the year when the ghosts of the dot-com era are finally laid to rest and IT pay in the...
ANN SWAIN We were coming back (in 2002) and not a lot of guys were heralded as big time players and we were fl...
MIKE AYERS America had been a boom-and-bust economy going into the Great Depression - just over and over and ov...
ELIZABETH WARREN
For a really long time, I thought being different was a negative thing. But as I grew older, I start... HALIMA ADEN There was a big downturn in business, partly when the Jewish people left. The other thing too, is pr...
GEORGE BURROWS It's quite a job shift, but I guess after the dot-com burst... it really has worked out in a very un...
JOE ELFORD We were really close all tournament and we felt we had a chance to win it. We were able to play in t...
DONNIE DARR And Seattle isn't really crazy anymore. It's a big dot-com city.
KRIST NOVOSELIC A lot of (points) were out of transition. The girls were just very aggressive defensively in the sec...
PETER ARNOLD You've got to take into account the studies were done before 9/11, before the dot-com industry went ...
STEVE HOGAN I grew up at a time with androgyny in the 1980s; it was easy to pass under the radar as a gay may.
ALEXIS ARQUETTE It is very similar to companies like Google and other internet companies. When you go and search on ...
NIKLAS ZENNSTROM [These days, it may be easier to raise startup money than it was during the boom. No, it doesn't see...
GEOFFREY MOORE When we started Skype, if you look at analyst reports, no one forecasted it as a big business. Also ...
NIKLAS ZENNSTROM We basically ran together for a real long time. We were both working off each other and it was real ...
HEATHER STEPHENS
But maybe because the dot-com world gives people positions at a younger age, and many women are prom... CHRISTIE HEFNER I could really sense (a swing). We were grinding and we were grinding and then they got a couple of ...
SARUNAS JASIKEVICIUS Skeptics will point to other waves of innovations in the past, but things are happening at lightning...
JAMES GLASSMAN
So, for example, a country was into recession right after I was sworn in, a dot-com bust had taken p... GEORGE W. BUSH
Some say Google is God. Others say Google is Satan. But if they think Google is too powerful, rememb... SERGEY BRIN
The kind of environment that we developed Google in, the reason that we were able to develop a searc... SERGEY BRIN
When we first started our internet company, 'China Pages', in 1995, and we were just making ... JACK MA What's really happening is a restructuring. There are companies spread out all over the valley that ...
DOUG HENTON I have never seen it so good. The real dot-com boom is here. The [railroad] track is in the ground, ...
BRIAN HALLA It was during Auburn preparation. It was a Tuesday. We were getting ready for practice. Around lunch...
ANDREW WHITWORTH It really was a long process. We started filming in 2003 and finished editing in early 2005. But we ...
JOHN SIKES
You have perhaps waited for years to be freed from some need. For a long, long time you have looked ... EBERHARD ARNOLD It looks eerily similar to the boom days. A slew of new Internet companies are competing across a wh...
GIAN FULGONI And it's interesting, when you look at the predictions made during the peak of the boom in the 1...
CHRIS ANDERSON At the height of the first great dot-com boom, Craig Kanarick, then in his early 30s, was running Ra...
DAVID SAX Guns, she was reminded then, were not for girls. They were for boys. They were invented by boys. The...
LORRIE MOORE It was a good game. We started out behind in the first quarter and then the second and third were pr...
BRUCE MOORE Recently, the Google Internet search "Diwali greetings" was the second-most popular search worldwide...
JUNE PRESZLER The hotel and the characters under its roof serve as a microcosm for what was happening in the count...
EMILIO ESTEVEZ It took us a long time to find out that we had been lied to by our parents' generation. The mora...
PETER FONDA Most of our teachers were white, and the songs that they taught us were white, so when we first star...
CLARENCE FOUNTAIN
Bonobo studies started in the '70s and came to fruition in the '80s. Then in the '90s, a... FRANS DE WAAL Virtually every major technology has an initial spike of interest, then a dip, and then a long-term ...
BALAJI SRINIVASAN
The numbers really grew when we were at war, when all the fellas who used to be inside their homes w... DREXEL DEAL It was pretty amazing. At first, the person who answered the door would be incredulous, like they we...
RUDY PERKINS We were all very anxious and nervous about the conference actually happening, but once everything st...
WENDY CHEUNG There was that period of time, everybody had told me about six months, before you really got it. It ...
ANDREA SNYDER The dot-com logic of paying big prices to enter new markets has come roaring back,
GREG STERLING
During the dot-com days, one could take just about any company public and reap fortunes. All you had... VIVEK WADHWA They were saying they were coming in to take the Big East. I don't see that happening.
DEE MCCANN
Competitors argue that Google rigs its search algorithms to demote listings for competing search eng... MARVIN AMMORI We first started out in a man and for some reason we weren't rotating and they were screening and cu...
DANNY STARKEY But if you look at WorldCom, which is the biggest failure to date, they grew dramatically, they were...
DON NICKLES
As so often happened during the dot-com bubble days, the revenues that AOL and PurchasePro were coun... JAMES COMEY We really cooperate now - it used to not be that way. It used to be, they were the cops. They were g...
LEE MURPHY (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes...
JEAN SASSON
The house I grew up in was a tall Victorian town house in Bristol. There were very big rooms, which ... PHILIPPA GREGORY They were the No. 2 seed, it was in their gym and their fans were really loud, but I was really prou...
HERB GRACE
My love for cooking began when I was young. Because my parents were in the army, they were both real... TIA MOWRY They were off most people's radar for a long time and we were constantly hearing from smaller retail...
MICHAEL ATMORE
One time, Bert and I were making out for so long it wasn't even funny..But then it was funny. GERARD WAY Our big guys really stepped it up late and took it to the hoop. Early on they were in too much of a ...
SETH RICE The relay team was ranked sixth going in, so they performed where they were supposed to. We were hop...
DANA SCHWARTING When you watch the sitcoms that were the big hits when I was growing up, TV was still just TV. It wa...
DAN HARMON During my years of professional cricket in England, I realised that although the Australians were ta...
GLENN TURNER This is a boom time for Buddhism in China. Many of the monasteries that were shut down and destroyed...
GLEN MULLIN You wouldn't think it would but my parents were really balanced about that. When it came time fo...
ELMER BERNSTEIN We use our enterprise search engine everywhere throughout the company. We've had enterprise search s...
JEFF WATTS When the dot-com bubble burst, we wanted to develop something we were passionate about. We saw succe...
CASIE CALDWELL Back then, I could be as obnoxious as I liked and people would still come back for more, they had to...
BENJAMIN COHEN
They were just people who were deeply in love with each other and couldn't be together at first. He ... JUNE CARTER CASH 787 basically wiped out most of the islands that were close to Albany. When they built 787, they fil...
DON RITTNER
Then we got another letter saying, 'OK, we're back in the business. Then we started going back to Lu... CARL ROGERS I'm a big believer in size, ... When you're a smaller company, as we were 27 years ago when I starte...
JOHN LAMATTINA It started out as a class project and the guidelines of the project were basically to organize group...
BETHANY PALMER
I grew up in kind of the last generation of Canadians who thought things that were happening in Brit... ROBERT MACNEIL
Everybody looked at (Ito) and said invincible. Then slowly during that two-week period of time befor... SCOTT HAMILTON
Even companies that do big business online struggle to be noticed by Google users. The Web, after al... JASON FRIED (Snowflake) hit the ball really well. They were able to put the ball in play, and we threw a couple ...
RAMON MORALES The kids started to put it together in the third. There were a lot of freshmen and sophomores that I...
JEFF NEESE
I had studied Russian in college. I had gotten into it first through literature and then just really... SCOTT SHANE
Greatness is the amount of time you were able to invest into cultivating your ground. SUNDAY ADELAJA
Death was silence, loss, guilt. And anger. But life led that way, anyway. From birth, it was a slow,... MICHELLE SAGARA WEST All things considered, it was a good quarter, particularly in light of what's been happening with th...
TOM MORABITO They play with each other pretty well. The press has bothered us all year, and we were able to capit...
HARRY MASCH 'The Practice' is one of my favorite shows of all time, and the first few seasons of that sh...
ALEC BERG I was just fortunate I was able to throw when I came back, ... After Ted Williams ran into a wall (d...
AL KALINE Priest got her fourth foul early in the third quarter. We had to play a quarter of time without her....
BRIAN BLUME
I was lucky enough to be given books that weren't top sellers; books that were kind of under the... BILL SIENKIEWICZ
It was confusing pretending to be completely different people, particularly because it had been so l... LEMONY SNICKET When the objects were presented in a sparse array, search times to find the target were similar for ...
MARY BRAVO Knowing you were right down the hall was way too hard. I couldn’t do it,” Evan declared, sliding...
REBECCA DONOVAN It is frustrating that we haven't had a tournament in such a long time. There were all sorts of prom...
JANICE MOODIE [Analysts were stunned by Porsche's move, which they said was a radical departure for a traditionall...
ARNDT ELLINGHORST It was big, especially how we started the game. We came out really sluggish, but stuck with it, so t...
BEN GORDON I thought Google was the coolest place. People there were so smart and they were all doing these rea...
BEN SILBERMANN They brought to our attention problems where out-of-state companies -- mostly construction companies...
ANDY MCKENZIE
Some people harbour an awkward clash of feelings - homosexual attraction on the one hand and shame o... 
I'm a gun owner and strong supporter of the Second Amendment. 
We Brits print banknotes out in Debden in Essex, and have contracted it out to the private sector. H... 
You now have six-year campaigns for the Senate - you never stop running. It's not uncommon for a... 
Beijing has a glut of charming and traditional or brash and luxurious places to stay. 
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We know that a college degree is rapidly becoming the price of admission to the global economy. 
At the age of eighty, the Dalai Lama has begun to discuss a range of prospects for the future dispos... 
It's never too late to do the right thing, and America deserves much better than either Donald T... 
The Beijing government avidly asserts its control over matters of reincarnation as a way of securing... 