John Koskinen Quotes

That will actually look fairly interesting on a T-shirt. - John Koskinen

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

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. - John Koskinen

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. - John Koskinen

Let me put to rest the rumor that missiles are going to be flying everywhere by accident. - John Koskinen

It is far too early to declare victory. We have a lot of systems and a lot of countries to go through yet before we'll see what the actual impact has been of the transition. - John Koskinen

It doesn't mean the system is going to shut down, but in a lot of cases it means people are going to have to go to manual processes, which may slow, to some extent, emergency response. - John Koskinen

Information and the exchange of information is a critical part of being able to remediate Y2K problems worldwide. - John Koskinen

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. - John Koskinen

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. - John Koskinen

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