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"Design is so critical it should be on the agenda of every meeting in every single department."

"Competition is the final price determinant and competitive prices may result in profits which force you to accept a rate of return less than you hoped for, or for that matter to accept temporary losses."


"But you know the second month I was here I put out a healthy lifestyles directive. The pundits will say it was because we were sued. Well that's what they say. It was never about that."
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"We are pushing ahead as fast as we can for all audiences, whether for the business user, the child, or the digital music enthusiast."


"Some say Google is God. Others say Google is Satan. But if they think Google is too powerful, remember that with search engines unlike other companies, all it takes is a single click to go to another search engine."

"What commercialism has brought into Linux has been the incentive to make a good distribution that is easy to use and that has all the packaging issues worked out."

"Well, you know, I - again, even in the context of BP, I wonder about this government's priorities. The federal government's top priority right now should be the cleanup. And BP certainly has done so many things wrong. They need to be held to account."


"The budget should be balanced, the treasury should be refilled, the public debt should be reduced and the arrogance of public officials should be controlled."

"The truth is, I'm proud of the life I've lived so far, and although I've made my share of mistakes, I have no regrets."

"But there will be no justice, there will be no government of the people, by the people, and for the people, as long as the government and its officials permit bribery in any form."

"To do so, we are creating a Fairness for Switzerland Committee that will not only disseminate some of the facts, but also protect a relationship that is important to all of us in North America."

"My number one goal was not getting 'A's' - and I proved it. I was a 'C' student. You have to be ready to learn. If you're not interesting in learning, it doesn't work. As I grew older and wanted to learn and desperately wanted inside information, learning was a lot easier."

"I feel like the thing we can do is celebrate people doing great work and create more cultural momentum and awareness that this is an important thing in the world. So when the next economic crisis hits and people are talking about where to cut from the budget, science isn't the thing."

"I will never have a heart attack. I give them."

"Hey, our Founding Fathers wore long hair and powdered wigs - I don't see anybody trying to look like them today, either... But we do look to them as role models."

"Just keep thinking about the good side of ADD - the creativity and the originality it can stimulate."

"I mean it's the most objective industry in the world. If your numbers stink, you're out. If your numbers are good, you get more money. It's the most Darwinian, it's beautiful, it's brutal, it works."

"I knew German history well, and out of my experiences in the rest of the world I believed to know the German kind; therefore I never doubted that, although for the time being all indications were against it, one day a change would come."

"Any attempts at humor immediately after September 11th were deemed tasteless."


"When I first got started in the late '70s, early '80s, and first was thinking about the interactive world, I believed so fervently that it was the next big thing, I thought it would happen quickly."


"I think life is sort of like a competition, whether it's in sports, or it's achieving in school, or it's achieving good relationships with people. And competition is a little bit of what it's all about."


"Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change."

"Internet penetration in Italy is quite low and the Berlusconi media machine controls most of what people see."


"The President regards the Japanese as a brave people; but courage, though useful in time of war, is subordinate to knowledge of arts; hence, courage without such knowledge is not to be highly esteemed."


"I want to make wines that harmonize with food - wines that almost hug your tongue with gentleness."

"We also provide a lot of services with our consulting group that allow people to take maximum advantage of the Net economy. Those all seem to resonate with customers and are providing a good strong base going forward."

"We want consumers to say, 'That's a hell of a product' instead of, 'That's a hell of an ad.'"

"The role of a museum of modern art is to make a good selection and identify what we believe to be the coming movements, and that requires taste."

"I believe a man is better anchored who has a belief in the Supreme Being."

"The families of Aboriginals who have died in custody in NSW will suffer again because of these white lies."

"All electoral laws in Europe are more democratic than they are in the United States."

"According to String Theory, what appears to be empty space is actually a tumultuous ocean of strings vibrating at the precise frequencies that create the 4 dimensions you and I call height, width, depth and time."

"Every parent in America has the total power to control all television programming that is dispatched to their home today."


"Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read."

"Our people are excited about building solutions, and it's rewarding to see how much fun Netscape employees have doing something they think is relevant and important."

"If a man is dumb, someone is going to get the best of him, so why not you? If you don't, you're as dumb as he is."


"I wasn't a financial pro, and I paid the price."


"I was trying to figure out what to do next, I'd been accumulating ideas for productivity tools - software people could use every day, particularly to help organize their lives."


"So Europe's a big driver. And at one point, if the euro hadn't devalued, they would have been making as much money as the US with half the stores. Returns were higher."

"We think the managed security services opportunity is enormous and so we have been an active participant and probably the largest firm in this space outside of an IBM or EDS, which does large outsourcing contracts."

"I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is."

"You destroy the initiative of the working people if they don't feel they have a fighting chance to be a part of the American Dream."


"Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, "Make me feel important." Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life."

"I learned more from my mother than from all the art historians and curators who have informed me about technical aspects of art history and art appreciation over the years."

"Touch screen voting is a fine thing so long as they have a voter-verified paper trail."

"Do you know, that is the root of the whole trouble - has been one of the roots at any rate - is people hearing things and then imagining some more and magnifying it and multiplying it."

"It's actually not unlike Google at that stage of development. They had an up-and-running site. It wasn't losing very much money, it wasn't making very much money, but it was growing."


"You have got to have discipline and focus - on the customer and how you run the business."

"I haven't always made the right decisions."
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