Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chris Lewis

Our research shows a growing acceptance of IP telephony and associated services. It also shows that end users of all sizes are looking increasingly to third parties to take the burden of management of services off their hands. Packaging the right combination of applications, connectivity and management is the key to driving this into the mainstream market.

Simon Robinson

Our focus was on visual communications and user acceptance. We wanted to go beyond the state-of-the-art for systems in the home environment. Our goal was to allow users to communicate from any room in the house and to talk to service staff via a TV set rather than a desktop PC.

Jalal Rumi

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there.

Al Rogers

Our young black men are falling victim to some anti-social behavior. Our kids are going to find acceptance somewhere. We have to ask what is going on in our community that these kids found themselves somewhere they didn't need to be.

John Guthrie

Our biggest obstacle this first year is to help folks understand what the duck race is, how they can win and what the money will be used for, ... We expect it will grow in size and acceptance in the coming years, but we do know that it will be a fun event for Zionsville families from this year forward.

Scott Silverman

Retailers cited several positive external factors contributing to the increased sales this year. The top three reasons were decreased gas prices, increased acceptance or comfort with online shopping, and the press coverage about online shopping. We are experiencing a general momentum right now.

Stephen Baker

Plasma prices continue to free-fall as good availability and wide acceptance of the products spur retailers and manufacturers to maximize their sales opportunities,

Edward Corrado

People who use Novell on Linux really like it. We are starting to see acceptance of this combination in corporate circles. Its acceptance will be slow in the next year. But in five years, there will be a much stronger user base of Linux on the desktop.

Alfred Montapert

Man's ultimate destiny is to become one with the Divine Power which governs and sustains the creation and its creatures.

Gholamreza Aghazadeh

Regarding this joint venture, we have reached a basic agreement. Talks to complete this package will continue in coming days in Russia.

Tom Daschle

reasonably optimistic that we can come up with a procedural agreement, certainly in the next 24 hours.

Liu Jianchao

Relevant agreements are in the process of being signed one by one, with some of them still under negotiation.

Phil Fontaine

Our position is that it must be implemented as is. It's a very complex agreement. A lot of detail. Very delicate proposition and any tinkering with the proposed compensation package would cause it to unravel. And that's a view held very clearly by our experts who were involved in the negotiations.

David Spooner

Our overall goal, as we've said all along, is to reach a longer-term solution that will permit greater stability in textile and apparel trade. The US has been using its right under China's WTO accession agreement to invoke safeguards in cases of market disruption or the threat of market disruption, and we will continue to do so as appropriate.

Ross Anderson

Parliament could revisit the Unfair Contracts Act . Consumers are finding that they can't get digital content without signing an end user agreement whose terms and conditions are ridiculous.

James Gleick

Patent battles have become a strong catalyst for mergers, reducing competition in various domains. The largest corporations, with gigantic patent portfolios, routinely enter into cross-licensing agreements with their largest competitors.

Keith Kesler

Part of the agreement with any and all Homeland Security equipment is if they need it, they get it.

Graham Watson

Part of our original criticism to the agreement was that it did not contain sufficient safeguards for data protection of EU citizens.

Jason Brown

Receiving certification assures our customer that our organic products are free from harmful additives and preservatives. From farm to desk, our products are guaranteed to be of the highest quality without compromise.

Ron Hovsepian

Our partners are telling us that their mid-market customers want to deploy open source, but that they need a packaged Linux solution more tailored to their needs.

John Grant

Patton customers love the rich feature set, reliability, and quality of our Model 2120 Single-Port Terminal server. These device servers meet the same high standards people expect from Patton. By expanding our device-server solution set, we're giving customers more choices.

Bill White

Our meters don't start running until we pick the customer up,

Amy Vickers

People know now that if they want them, they have to order them. Customers usually order two or three dozen.

Ram Shriram

Stay externally focused - on your customers - and focus internally when you have to hire.

Bill Hopkins

Stay away from trite ones like, 'Where the customer is always king,' because it really means nothing.

George Shaheen

Our focused efforts will help us target the majority of places where (our competitors) customers shop today - brick-and-mortar stores,

Caroline Allen

Our focus is getting the power back to our customers.

Peter Jackson

We've thrown away a golden opportunity. It's bitterly disappointing. Now we have to hope others around us slip up. You can just imagine how the players are feeling. We played well in the first half but we didn't get that second goal.

Bill Cosby

I have to follow my thoughts and mine for the gold. I have to dig it out.

Big Sean

I never look at it like I'm wasting money when I'm buying gold.

Antoine Rivarol

A fool may have his coat embroidered with gold, but it is a fool's coat still.

Felix Gottwald

It is a special day for us with our first Olympic gold medal.

Mark Sutton

I think that is why the gold kiwi is very popular in the New Zealand market.

Thomas Fuller

It is much better to have your gold in the hand than in the heart.

Bob Hayes

I won gold medals representing this country, but I've gotten more recognition around the world than I have in my own back yard.

Ellison Chu

I think gold will be trading around $548 to around $555. It's a short-term range.

Frank Dzubeck

Linux will be integral on all IBM platforms, even the S/390. This is an evolutionary trend.

Frank Dzubeck

Linux will be integral on all IBM platforms, even the S/390,

Jeff Raikes

IBM legitimized the notion of the PC -- that it would not be just a hobbyist computer.

Knox Fuqua

IBM just doesn't give me the performance I'm looking for in tech,

Larry Ellison

I don't think Oracle and IBM want another Microsoft in Red Hat.

Steven Milunovich

Next year IBM is probably going to come in roaring back into the second half, but in between it's a mess,

Craig Bruce

Even IBM can't stand in the way of progress... for more than a decade.

Larry Rice

You'll probably see some bottom-fishing in IBM soon, but the rallies are going to be very narrow, selective and not sustainable,

Brad Day

On a very low processor count, IBM now has performance benchmarks that are really going to put HP and Sun in a quandary, because they're going to have to match them.

Bill Hayden

Cosmoe works on any of the standard filesystems available for Linux.

Brian Stevens

Using stateless Linux for all those physical systems allows IT a lot of scale.

Jamie Zawinski

Linux is only free if your time has no value.

Bill Gates

It's easier for our software to compete with Linux when there's piracy than when there's not.

Larry Augustin

In 1998, Linux had 16 percent of the server operating system market, and in 1999, it already had 25 percent.

Dan Kusnetzky

At this point, the perception is that Linux is viable (only) for servers.

Michael Silver

That's why Linux has not taken off more than it has today,

Jim Allchin

We can build a better product than Linux,

Konstantin Sapronov

This is not at all surprising as Linux is the most popular Unix-type system.

Nicole Miller

I think they're more mainstream than people realize. The soda started out very Gen-X, but I think they've transcended that.

John Edwards

I'm a mainstream North Carolinian, ... I think my views and values represent the values of most people in this country.

David Moody

We talked about what they already know ? that they spend a lot of time watching TV and that what they see is spread into mainstream ideals.

LaToya London

I think she has more gospel style than I do. I think I'm more, umm, you know mainstream I guess. I don't know if we split the vote. That could be possible but I don't think we are the same at all.

Shane Smith

Most of the time, when the mainstream media reports on something, it never tells the whole story.

Ronnie Milsap

When I was doing mainstream country, there was no way that an executive was going to ask you to do a gospel album.

Tom Goguen

There are also some 30 kickbacks that we are starting to use in the mainstream of the operating system.

David Whyte

By definition, poetry works with qualities and dynamics that mainstream society is reluctant to face head-on. It's an interesting phenomenon that by necessity, poetry is just below the radar.

Issa Rae

There's so many, 'no, black people aren't like that' barriers in mainstream media.

Peter Bart

Or, if it opens on three screens, it's going to stay on those three screens for much of the summer. He's not going to be pushed around like most studios are pushed around.

Mark Aaron

Our New York flagship store is staffed and open for business.

Tom Peterson

Our middles are very good. We passed really well and that opened things up for our offense.

Anders Igel

Our acquisition strategy is still very much the same as before, but we are opening up our thinking a little.

Chris Cornell

Rock will always have CBGB, whether it's open or closed.

Tom Thompson

We've tested oodles of time, but we're going to do it anyway. We'll pretend like we're open for business.

Tom Thompson

We've tested oodles of time, but we're going to do it anyway, ... We'll pretend like we're open for business.

Heath Miller

I was able to get open and Tommy got me the ball,

Marscilla Packer

I was just trying to get open, and when I got an open look I shot the ball.

Pete Carroll

For the second week in a row we just were on a torrid pace to self-destruct in the first quarter.

Derian Hatcher

The pace we're on, sure, anything could happen.

Daniel Petrocelli

The pace is picking up. I think the story's being told.

Pat McCormick

The pace is going to pick up from now until we're ready to launch.

Phyllis Nagy

The pace is especially important in this, when it isn't so much a whodunit. We had to find a way to structurally keep shifting the focus, where you think you know something but you see that you don't.

J. C. Watts

He had an 80-yard run called back. He was probably on pace to run for 400 yards in that game.

Chuck D.

We're on a record-setting pace for second-quarter warnings.

Brett Lee

I am keen on helping Indian bowlers but I am not seeking a full-time role. But yes I am really keen on helping out pace bowlers across the world,

Augustus

What is done well is done quickly enough.

Russell Baze

Past the quarter pole, he surged, got up in the lead,

Jan Egeland

Past agricultural policies have not been good. Governments understand they must be providing long-term solutions.

Jim Schoenfeld

Some of our youngsters have progressed past our expectations.

Carl Brown

Our traffic is up significantly in the past two weeks.

Mike Shanahan

Playing the way they have on the road the past three weeks is really an accomplishment. They play big on the road.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

To grasp the meaning of the world of today we use a language created to express the world of yesterday. The life of the past seems to us nearer our true natures, but only for the reason that it is nearer our language.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Your past wouldn’t frighten me,” I said, buckling my seat belt across my lap. “I’m guessing I’d be more appalled than anything.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Keep in mind that people change, but the past doesn't.

Becca Fitzpatrick

I nibbled my lower lip. "If you could see into my past just by touching my back, you'd have a hard time resisting the temptation too." "I have a hard time keeping my hands off you without that added bonus.

Michael R. Bloomberg

I think it's time to see what the marketplace really wants, and perhaps we can better accommodate that,

Orhan Pamuk

I think perhaps it is a generational thing,

Todd Hamilton

I'm so excited, I probably won't sleep for two or three or perhaps seven days,

Jose Sulaiman

I think that perhaps this has more to do with physiological aspects, I don't know,

Claire Tomalin

I would perhaps like to go back to writing small books about obscure people.

Lloyd Carr

Obviously, there is a sense of urgency about this week that's very special, that perhaps is different.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.

Wentworth Miller

When I've had my periods of unemployment, I'll get these e-mails from my father: 'I've read that the LAPD has a reservist program. Perhaps that's something you'd be interested in taking a look at.'

Alexander McCall Smith

You're always told by your publisher that you must only write one book a year and some years you should perhaps write none at all.

Isaac Singer

Originality is not seen in single words or even sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.

Teri Barbera

Someone has to have seen something. We're hoping.

David Ross

Man, we were weeping, ... I've never seen so much destruction.

John Torchetti

That was a team win, if I have ever seen one. Everyone from the goalie out tonight just competed. That was the word for tonight, compete.

Paul Thompson

That was ridiculous. In 16 years of coaching, I've never seen anything like that.

Warwick McKibbin

I think it's pretty much a continuation of what we've seen but probably a slightly different style.

Paul Cummings

I don't know what to say. I've never seen someone do this, either.

Drew Stafford

I don't know what to say about that, I've never seen that before.

Roger Clemens

I don't know that I've seen anything like it,

Fred Droes

We do not turn signals off and on.

Jennifer Robinson

The signals should smooth out the traffic around the (King of Prussia) mall.

William Dunkelberg

The index signals a solid start to 2006.

Rachel Cohn

I've given him more mixed signals than a dyslexic Morse code operator.

Joss Whedon

Can't stop the signal

Dave Evans

If they think Napster's bad, I can tell you there's a lot worse coming. ...The software that is untraceable is just around the corner.

Augusten Burroughs

I never could have written the screenplay because I would have been forced to learn new software and I can't learn one more thing.

Rupam Das

Software is a type of seduction, it's addictive, it's better when it's free.

Bill Gates

Software empowerment can be used here as well.

Vint Cerf

Writing software is a very intense, very personal thing. You have to have time to work your way through it, to understand it. Then debug it.

Jeff Pulver

is the triggering of a transformation where telecom merges with software applications.

Philip Schiller

This is to do a whole different set of things. There's been no software that does what Aperture does.

Michael J. Saylor

I think my software is going to become so ubiquitous, so essential, that if it stops working, there will be riots.

Richard Williams

These software stocks are all overvalued on the fundamentals that we see today.

Pat Harris

Some (hospital) units can't take any more. They have to set a limit. They don't want this to be a source of turnover for their staff.

Bill Hybels

You cannot do leadership without a source of regenerative strength. What is your source?

Thomas Friedman

Being one of my sources is exhausting. It's not one interview and you're done. I keep going back until I feel like I understand everything.

Ayn Rand

The verdict you pronounce upon the source of your livelihood is the verdict you pronounce upon your life.

Mitch Kapor

The accomplishment of open source is that it is the back end of the web, the invisible part, the part that you don't see as a user.

David B. Coe

The closer you can get to your setting and to primary sources, the more authentic your history is going to be...

Elaine Post

Until you know where the source is, how do you know you're treating the right one?

Calvin Trillin

There's always a source for humor.

Hayan Saad

What? He is the source of our troubles.

Henk Potts

Standard and Chartered could be vulnerable to a takeover.

Sophie Lowe

I think I've actually had a pretty standard upbringing. My parents are really normal, so I've always had them around to keep me grounded.

Diana Ross

Just because I have my standards they think I'm a bitch.

Craig Mathias

If that had not happened, we would probably not have had an 11n standard this year.

Aimee Mann

If your standards are low, you're going to stop pretty early on in the process.

Eliot Spitzer

I have disappointed and failed to live up to the standard I expected of myself.

Iris Apfel

I get very involved with my things, and they are not standard equipment.

Amber Heard

I have always been very rebellious and gone against the grain. I've always challenged the standards set before me.

Shane Richardson

We'll be making sure it's up to standard ... we'll make sure before we go there.

Randeep Hooda

I think 'method acting' is a widely abused term.

Willie Parker

I thought it was going to come back to me. But Hines was wide open.

Rashad Anderson

I wouldn't say it's wide open. But I know we aren't going to lose.

Anthony Brown

If they're going to have that rule, they should make wider streets.

Keyshawn Johnson

The wide receiver position is such a complex position.

Henry Mason

Most wide receivers are 400-plus. If he could ever get to that point, you've got to think he would be faster.

Daniel Hope

My goal is always to keep my ears as wide open as possible.

James Garner

There's a lot of room for error with a wound in the rear. It's a wide target.

Thalia

You can make films in a lot of countries, but they don't have very wide releases.

Ryan Hansen

Our nemesis all year has been our rebounding.

John Devine

Overall, 2002 will be a very challenging year for the industry,

Beck

I've been practicing for years, trying to figure out how to record an entire band live.

Beck

I'm always working on my own music, too. I've been working on a record for a few years.

Beck

I have for four years now been ringing the bell. Economic Holocaust is coming. Economic day of reckoning is coming.

Beck

I'm more critical of my songwriting than anybody, but I've worked really hard in the last five to 10 years to improve.

Barry Ritholtz

It is important for investors to understand what they do and don't know. Learn to recognize that you cannot possibly know what is going to happen in the future, and any investment plan that is dependent on accurately forecasting where markets will be next year is doomed to failure.

Barry Lopez

Over the years, one comes to measure a place, too, not just for the beauty it may give, the balminess of its breezes, the insouciance and relaxation it encourages, the sublime pleasures it offers, but for what it teaches. The way in which it alters our perception of the human. It is not so much that you want to return to indifferent or difficult places, but that you want to not forget.

Babatunde Osotimehin

The United Nations has been in the Great Lakes Region and Sahel for 50 years, mostly investing in peacekeeping. NOW is the time to invest in young people!