They said it.

“In the future, it will be the combination of storage and optical networking that will actually enable what I call the content big bang. And the content big bang will create more value and more wealth than has ever been created previously.” Michael Ruettgers, Chairman and CEO, EMC

“Anything with a chip in it becomes a platform for the delivery of services. In an e-services world, all things become revenue opportunities.”
Carly Fiorina, President and CEO, Hewlett-Packard

“I say thank God for Microsoft, because if it wasn’t for Microsoft, WorldCom would be the most hated company at the Department of Justice. And in the last year or two, Bill has certainly kept them busy.”
John Sidgemore, Vice Chairman, WorldCom

“We currently have maybe 300 million users on the Internet and...the rate at which the backbone of the Internet is getting faster is faster than the number of users being added....The problem of scaling the ‘Net...is the defining computing problem—and perhaps the defining technical problem—for the rest of our lives in science.”
Eric Schmidt, CEO, Novell