25 Quotes by John Koskinen

The only way we got to the point where Y2k became an afterthought was through the network we created.

We hope to encourage companies in both of our countries to share whatever technical information they can with counterpart companies in those countries.

Some communities and some companies still are deciding that they're going to wait and see (what happens when January 1, 2000 arrives) and we think that's a high risk roll of the dice.

One of the great goals of this meeting was to have people know each other and be able to communicate directly. We don't have time for the normal diplomatic procedures.

If they didn't fix the systems, they would not be functioning. Somebody said we did it too well, we made it look too easy. Maybe that's right. Maybe we should have had a control group over here failing.

If anything important happens, obviously we'll talk with the president as well. But at this point, we've agreed that my personal reports will be to the vice president over that weekend.

I think by the time we get to Tuesday or Wednesday, we'll fold up our tents until we see how the world does on Leap Day on February 29.

I think that means that the chances of some unknown or unmanageable catastrophe happening around the world are minimized significantly.

Some of the procrastinators haven't been heard from. I think it will be another few days before we can see definitively.