They said it.

“We all know that our whole industry was invented by two people. Al Gore for the Internet and Bill Gates for everything else. And that’s about all you need to know, and you understand the history of this industry.” Philippe Kahn, CEO, Starfish Software

“By the ‘surge economy’ we mean that things can happen very quickly on the Internet. A company can plan to do something—to deliver a service, to support their customers, to buy goods from their suppliers—and the success that they see can overwhelm the infrastructure they put in place.”
Mike Aymar, President, Intel Online Services

When television was launched it was hailed as radio with pictures. The result turned out to be very different, and the same will be the case for the mobile Internet.”
John Strand, telecommunications, media, and finance sales analyst, Strand Consult

“Within a few years around the world we’ll have something like a billion connected computers. And these computers will each individually allow a person access to essentially all of the information in the world.... It’s really the first time in human history where, sitting at one place, you can have access to essentially all the world’s information."
Craig Barrett, President and CEO, Intel

“We estimate that the number of wireless messages sent per month will balloon from 3 billion in December 1999 to 244 billion by December 2004.”
Dave Jackson, Senior Analyst, Cahners In-Stat

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