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"I think you should attend. Who knows, maybe it will be a script some day!?" –NatalieY pitching me on a new HR course
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“SINOFSKY! SINOFSKY! WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU ARE CHANGING THE FILE FORMATS?? WE CAN’T DO THAT!” –Steve Ballmer yelling across the building 17 cafeteria
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We can announce a partnership, something bigger, or even the “full meal deal.” –Chris Peters to the founders of Vermeer, 1995.
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I am tired from looking at all the stuff on the screen. Yikes it is overwhelming. But boy it is like a goldmine. –Me in email about early Outlook to a …
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“Though nothing more than a thin metal wire, Clippit will help find what you need and keep it all together.” –Clippit being introduced in Office 97
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“I don’t know how to read this without getting concerned.” –BillG replying to an Office96 status report April 1995
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“Code is like dinosaurs.” –Me in a memo trying to be a thought leader
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“C:\ONGRTLNS.W95” –Someone at Apple trying to be clever
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“Is that an OPP-stopper?” –HeikkiK, Office PM lead
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“What could be more magical than, all of a sudden, my email didn’t have typos and it was easy to add bullets?” –EdF, Word Development Manager
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The idle loop is a devil’s playground. –Developers on the Word team
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Overall performance is sluggish, tasks throughout suite applications are more complex to perform that in previous versions. --PC Week, Aug 21, 1995
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