"We see it in the broad statistical context of a natural disaster, like the 1994 Los Angeles earthquake or the 1954 north-eastern black-out."
- Sally Pope Davis, a Goldman Sachs banking analyst speaking at a Y2K conference in New York.
"Most advertisers have no clue about the true fundamental nature of the Internet or how to make use of interactive media. Ninety percent of the time you click on a banner ad and you arrive at a horrible Web site. People are learning they can't trust these things."
- Author and former Sun Microsystems engineer Jakob Nielsen speaking at the Software Development '98 conference in Washington DC last week.
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