(FORTUNE Magazine) – ''We say here that everybody wants to be a chicken's head, not a bull's toenail.'' -CHIEN-SHIEN WANG, 46, Taiwan's vice minister for economic affairs, on why there are so many small businesses in his country. ''Do you see people coming in here at 9:30 in the morning, putting their feet up, wondering what they are going to do, as a monopolist would? We're just trying to stay even with the industry and we are working like the dickens to do it.'' -JOHN F. AKERS, 50, new chief executive at IBM, on whether his company completely dominates the computer industry. ''It's a nice outcome for a piece of land given to Columbia as a consolation prize by the state.'' -MICHAEL I. SOVERN, 53, president of Columbia University, on the sale for $400 million of 11.7 acres of land under Rockefeller Center that was given to the University by New York State in lieu of cash in 1814.