The Backlash! - October 1997

Some provocative quotes

You're an emancipated woman; learn to lose.
- Danny Devito, Other People's Money

Like the Roman Empire, Microsoft has successfully turned most of its potential rivals into client states.

- Michael Vizard, InfoWorld, July 28, 1997

Thanks to its monopoly profits, Microsoft can afford to give its browser away for free.

- Jesse Berst, Editorial Director, ZDNet AnchorDesk, August 18, 1997

Men love romantic movies: Porno!

- Richard Jeni, HBO Comedy Hour, September 1997

Right now a lot of people are more bent on making themselves feel better about the world, by looking at it through Prozac eyes, than on improving it.

- Hans Koning, The Atlantic Monthly, September 1997

This country has a problem it doesn't wish to face: an excess of killing power.

- William Greider, Rolling Stone, July 10-24, 1997

If you're in an environment mostly dominated by a male culture, many of the things you must do to succeed are more comfortable for men than women.

- Linda A. Hoffman, Business Week, February 17, 1997

Everyone knows programming isn't a core competency at Microsoft. Marketing is the only core competency here. By next year, the marketers just might have this whole place to themselves.

- Anonymous Microsoft programmer, The Stranger, June 19, 1997

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