"We have a job to do to prove our case to the court, but we feel very, very good about it. . . If we don't like what it [the District Court] does, we will go to the Appeals Court. It could take as much as a year, but the key thing is not to get distracted." - An upbeat Bill Gates expressing his confidence at emerging triumphant in the Government's antitrust action against Microsoft, now scheduled to begin on October 13th.
"We've got a program within the balanced budget for. . . funds to hook up every classroom to the Internet by the year 2000. That's what we ought to be talking about in Washington DC." - The American President, Bill Clinton, late last week refusing to shoot the messanger and showing remarkable tolerance for the medium which has done so much to spread the lurid details of his affair with "that woman" across the world.
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