Mike Lynch Quotations

She's a confident player and she's not going to back down from anybody. She's an intense player, a passionate player. You want your kids to play like that.

On the first day God made Thai asses, and on the seventh day he was awful tired, and that's when he made U.S. asses.

Because she's a tease. She'll love you, then she'll bite.

He helped us get on the good side of construction.

I always admired churches that start new churches, but I thought I would be the guy who stays put, ... But Grace Community grew beyond my scope, and I needed to be starting something fresh. I heard a call from God. He said it was time.

People are just beginning to understand what is possible with enterprise search. First, there was the basic keyword-type search. That was like starting a car with a crank. What we're seeing now is next-generation technology that understands language context.

Our initial reaction is to add structure to unstructured information. That is the wrong way of looking at the problem.

Our visibility is improving, but at the same time still remains low,

When it's all said and done, the money that comes back is relatively insignificant compared to the entire athletic budget. A million dollars is a lot of money, but when you're talking about a $63 million budget, it's just a small piece of the pie.

We believe these results confirm that the third quarter 2001 was the bottom of this market as far as Autonomy was concerned.

We have not experienced a slow-down in our overall revenue growth during the fourth quarter of 2000 and have seen strong growth from the third quarter of 2000,

The police have said since day one that Congressman Condit has no link to the disappearance of Chandra Levy,

We thought the Bee was going to be a little bit more objective throughout this. They seem to have lost that objectivity.

With basketball, it depends on how far you advance in the tournaments. The farther you get, the more money that the school gets back.

But let me make very clear this is not a change in Congressman Condit's position or strategy, ... He has said from the beginning of this issue, and the beginning of the inquiries, that at the appropriate time in the investigation, he would do it through the appropriate venue and to the appropriate people.

We went to our Alderman, Rich Walker, to see if he thought we'd be able to do it.

The transition from Internet to enterprise has been tried a number of times, and failed each time. It really is quite a different thing.

The third quarter traditionally has a slower August but a compensating September. The events of September 11 interrupted the normal pattern, significantly impacting the quarter's revenue.

The Olympic Games have been a tremendous strategic fit.

This is an acquisition that is expected to create a strong undisputed global leader in the unstructured information management market,

Despite difficult conditions in the global markets our highly flexible business model has ensured yet another profitable quarter underpinned by the considerable strength of our balance sheet,

I had to be back doing something like Switchboard.

I really didn't think we'd be able to be standing here. I never really thought I'd be able to do something like this.

I gave my heart to Christ at that moment, ... My sins were forgiven. It was like a backpack had been lifted off my shoulders, and that feeling has stayed with me ever since.

I didn't realize I would be maybe researching quotes from Voltaire and Mussolini before this was over,

If for example, an automotive magazine wanted to write up the story above, the words 'rode by car' would be much more important because of the context.