Netscape Quotes & Sayings

We're no longer a small business; we're a large organization spread around the world. I can't imagine Netscape growing as fast as it has if it weren't for the way we use our products. — Jim Barksdale

development at leading-edge software organizations, like JavaSoft, Microsoft, and Netscape. He called to chat with a — Michael A. Cusumano

Microsoft was twelve years old before people started talking about Microsoft millionaires; Netscape was one and a half. — Michael Lewis

Eighteen months after Netscape was created, and before it had made a dime, Netscape sold shares in itself to the public. On the first day of trading the price of those shares rose from $12 apiece to $48. Three months later it was at $140. It was one of the most successful share offerings in the history of the U.S. stock markets, and possibly the most famous. — Michael Lewis

Jonathan Drazen," I said, squeezing his hand. "You're a manipulative bastard, a brazen liar, and a sadist. You've brought me to my knees. You've dominated me. You've told me who I am and then challenged me to be it. If you made me strong enough to stand up to the world, let me stand by you. If you completed the woman I am, let me be that woman in your honor. Every part of my body is dedicated to you. Every note I sing. Every breath in my lungs. My pleasure and pain. Take me. Let me serve you. Let me be yours. — C.D. Reiss

Sad soul, take comfort, nor forget
That sunrise never failed us yet. — Celia Thaxter

We can collaborate with a Netscape employee or partner who's halfway around the world. We can distribute information and software to customers and shareholders, and get their feedback. — Jim Barksdale

The professors argued that Netscape courted disaster from the start, by taunting Microsoft. Mooning the Giant — Michael Lewis

There is no order of things except in the human mind. — Jostein Gaarder

I think economics is about passion. Economic progress, whether it is a two-person coffee shop or whether it is Netscape, is about people with brave ideas. Because it is brave to mortgage the house, when you've got two kids, to start a coffee shop. — Tom Peters

LinkedIn is the Netscape of its era. — Frank Quattrone

When we took Netscape public, if people wanted to invest in the web, that was the only stock that they could do it by investing in. So Netscape's market value was higher than it probably otherwise would have been if there were lots of other ways to play that theme. — Frank Quattrone

Two of the people I don't care about: fans or media, — Brian Urlacher

Over two billion people now use the broadband Internet, up from perhaps 50 million a decade ago, when I was at Netscape, the company I co-founded. — Marc Andreessen

When I started Netscape I was brand new out of college and all the aspects of building a business, like balance sheets and hiring people, were new to me. — Marc Andreessen

The ability of our people to think quickly and create great products in this whole new world of Internet open standards is not only essential to our success but is also one of the things that impresses me most about Netscape. — Jim Barksdale

I live with a passionate passion. I know one day, I will be gone. — Lailah Gifty Akita

When Netscape failed, it didn't mean the Internet was over. — Lynn Jurich

The new friends whom we make after attaining a certain age and by whom we would fain replace those whom we have lost, are to our old friends what glass eyes, false teeth and wooden legs are to real eyes, natrual teeth and legs of flesh and bone. — Nicolas Chamfort

If you walked into Netscape headquarters with a plain old modem from CompUSA they'd think it was a garage-door opener. — Walt Mossberg

Convenient though it would be if it were true, Mozilla [Netscape 1.0] is not big because it's full of useless crap. Mozilla is big because your needs are big. Your needs are big because the Internet is big. There are lots of small, lean web browsers out there that, incidentally, do almost nothing useful. But being a shining jewel of perfection was not a goal when we wrote Mozilla. — Jamie Zawinski

Netscape brought the Internet alive with the browser. They made the Internet so that Grandma could use it, and her grandchildren could use it. The second thing that Netscape did was commercialize a set of open transmission protocols so that no company could own the Net. — Thomas Friedman

Was tempted to quote Walden - "Why should I feel lonely? Is not our planet in the Milky Way?" - but refrained. How can I get lonely, I asked, when there's still so much to read? — H.P. Lovecraft

Our people are excited about building solutions, and it's rewarding to see how much fun Netscape employees have doing something they think is relevant and important. — Jim Barksdale

Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself. — Henry David Thoreau

One of Netscape's main attractions to customers from Day One is that we provide alternatives. And that's cherished by many customers - certainly not all. — Jim Barksdale

Netscape was able to get the government working on its behalf. — Bill Gates