Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mary Rich

Previously, when you called the electric company, the field guy would come out to connect or disconnect you, and then it would go out on a bill. Today that same transaction could touch up to a hundred systems.

Andy Ball

Our outlook as a construction company for the next two years is very, very positive.

Carl Icahn

particularly important at Time Warner because of the difference of opinion between many large shareholders and management concerning the direction of the company and the lack of share price performance under current management.

Scott Weiss

Part of the magic of a startup is the fear of death. You have only so much money in the bank, and if you don't get to the right milestone before you run out, then the company goes under - it's over.

Bill Gates

Paul was instrumental in the creation of Microsoft and has played an important role in the success and direction of our company throughout the years,

David Litchfield

Oracle still has not released an official patch, so it is still leaving its customers at risk. It is a trivial thing to fix. If the company is still working on it, I do not understand why.

Shawn Willett

Oracle says a company could, for example, take out its BI tool and replace it with a third-party app. The question is, how practical will that be for users?

Charles Bona

Oracle has been and is a database company, and that's where the focus should stay for now.

David Menlow

People have to understand: As a shareholder, in general, they don't have any say in the company. People complain about it, but those who like what the company does will continue to view the stock as a vehicle for profits.

Bill Vaughan

SAP is becoming the standard for business software. Oracle is in a state of chaos.

Marc Hebert

It is like being at Oracle in the 1990s Silicon Valley.

Socrates

The Delphic oracle said I was the wisest of all the Greeks. It is because I alone, of all the Greeks, know that I know nothing.

Larry Ellison

There is no more important platform for Oracle than HP and Itanium.

Marc Benioff

I never thought that's what Oracle would be doing today.

Hugh Johnson

What Oracle did is it demoralized the rest of the technology sector.

Barry Hyman

It's not the Fed; It's all Oracle and it's taken the sector with it.

Dan Roberts

Right now, we're just in kind of high-level discussions with Oracle about the relationship that we can build.

John Twelve Hawks

Many physicists these days sound like the Delphic oracle - with equations.

John Taylor

From a practical standpoint, most Americans don't live there.

Rick Snyder

But as a practical matter, Detroit's the sports city in the country.

Holly Tachovsky

She would not sugarcoat it for you. It was always very practical and real-world.

Baruch Spinoza

In practical life we are compelled to follow what is most probable ; in speculative thought we are compelled to follow truth.

Barry Schwartz

Practical wisdom is what's called for in situations that have a moral dimension to them.

Bruce Graham

What we need to do is sell this idea (to the town). It's not going to sell as a 'Save the Church' (proposal). The way we need to present it to the town is to find a sensible, practical use for this structure.

China Machado

I'm practical. I see something, and I do it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is no practical question on which anything more than an approximate solution can be had.

Al Jarreau

My mother and father come from that post-Depression, middle-of-World-War -I kind of thinking that says, 'Find a practical job. You know what I mean, Mr. Big Shot? So, you can sing a song ...'

Craig Harris

Most of the questions were about the stage of development we are in.

Liu Jianchao

it is appropriate now to refer this question to the U.N. Security Council.

Cliff May

I think there's no question that he has, I would say, support from the White House,

MaryEllen Elia

I think there's no question we have some things that we need to do.

Tracy Austin

I think there are more questions in the first week than we've seen in a long time.

Nicole Vaidisova

I think the question is, 'What was not the problem?

Jeff Tedford

That was a tough start for him, no question about it,

Brent Bracelin

That will happen. The question now is the magnitude.

Patrick Murphy

That wasn't the time to question our government,

Doug Cole

Other things can be replaced ... but not photos.

Alan Alda

No one can replace a unique person like Peter.

Kevin Phillips

Obviously, we are not going to be able to replace these vans with one bus. It's going to be a two-to-one ratio.

Robert Reich

We don't have to sit by and watch our meritocracy be replaced by a permanent aristocracy, and our democracy be undermined by dynastic wealth.

John Garber

We're never going to replace the radiologist, and that's not the intent,

Thomas Schaaf

We can't replace Miro, but we have to put that aside.

Derek Hall

We will replace the projectors, we will review our security system in the building, and see what we can do.

Kathleen Patterson

What we take out today takes 30 to 100 years to replace back into the aquifer. You can use 10,000 to 20,000 gallons (of water) on even a small lot. Micro-irrigation uses about a 10th of that.

Mariella Ruocco

We can replace the car, we can't replace you.

Donna Berger

I was very amazed. The sign says the crew, they all ate, slept on the deck.

Billy Donovan

I'd like to start Moss, unless he says he doesn't want to start.

Adam Timmerman

I think it says a lot about him being unselfish and seeing the talent in Steven himself.

Brian Reilly

He's been through it. He just says to stay patient.

Mardi Gras

If we can do this, it says we're back.

Damon Hewitt

If the state says there's a plan, that's an overstatement.

Ryan Garko

If someone says something, you know who said it.

Denise Roberts

He says he wants to be a firefighter,

Dmitri Young

He has a presence. You knew, right from the get-go, he was the manager, and what he says goes.

William Bolar

He has all the tools to be great. He'll take them far.

Charles Bass

China has legally purchased high performance computers, advanced machine tools, and semiconductor-manufacturing equipment from several American companies.

Charles Babbage

At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged.

Ayn Rand

Money is just a tool. It will take you anywhere you want, but you have to be the driver

Carine Roitfeld

Clothing is always a tool that helps me take a picture. But it's never about the clothing.

Alain de Botton

Literature deserves its prestige for one reason above all others - because it's a tool to help us live and die with a little bit more wisdom, goodness, and sanity.

Hon Ip

There are tools we can use. It is not true that nothing can be done once H5N1 is back into wild birds.

Edsger Dijkstra

Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes, biology is about microscopes or chemistry is about beakers and test tubes. Science is not about tools. It is about how we use them, and what we find out when we do.

Banksy

Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing.