"I've been at this (Colorado's anti-tax crusade) for 12 years, but I'm hanging up the plow. Voters are so unbelieveably ungrateful, ignorant and able to be stampened." Douglas Bruce, Colorado Springs Real-Estate Man, WSJ, 1/4/2001, PgA1 (quoted by David Wessel).

"The smaller the PC, the harder it is for manufacturers to get it right." Walter S. Mossberg, WSJ, 1/4/2001, Pg B1.

"How can you be proud of a company that can't even afford coffee?" Charles Heckscher, Rutgers Univerisity, WSJ, 1/4/2001, PgB1 (quoted by Joann S. Lublin in an article on how companies cut perks in the face of a souring economy.)