“[While the U.S. president has an e-mail address and favors preventing taxation of Internet commerce, the U.S. government has, in fact, hurt the industry by imposing] brain-dead legislation on privacy and the export of encryption, ... And outside of the U.S., I worry about taxation [of Internet commerce]. It's logical to assume that governments will want a piece of the action.”
“Al is a great guy, he leads an extraordinarily important company with an amazing technology, but they have some people issues to work through, ... I wish them all the luck in the world.”
“The first 3 years IBM left us alone and we made our milestones, ... But the last couple of years, as some IBM units struggled, we started to get pressure to do more back-end integration.”
“I'd spent my entire career with a publicly traded company, ... As Lotus became a less independent company, my thought was that my true skills would get less of a workout. This late in my career wasn't the time to be running a lab for IBM.”
