David Clarke Quotations

When we find someone buried in another grave, that is going to be a situation we won't discover until it comes time to dig that grave.

We reject kings, presidents and voting. We believe in rough consensus and running code.

We've seen over the last 12 months or so people going into deployments. The technology has gone from early adopter to early majority.

Making a network faster has never made it more secure or easier to use.

More math would give us an advantage in the future with jobs.

Ongoing population growth, strong employment and economic expansion, together with healthy state finances, are behind the continuing growth in construction activity.

He wants ten inches. Right in the middle of the fillet.

It is a model which has been resoundingly endorsed by our growing customer base, our growing market share and our repeat business,

The acquisition of True Temper broadens our lawn and garden product line with outstanding, highly respected brands, ... The purchase also expands USI Hardware and Tool's customer base and provides additional capacity for future growth.

We are delighted to be working with PCG to continue to develop professionalism in the IT industry, and making BCS membership more accessible to PCG's IT members enabling them to gain industry-recognised endorsement of their credentials. BCS membership supports career development at every stage, offering a wealth of IT industry information, and access to an unrivalled network of IT professionals to help secure that next job or contract.

Volumes and prices were higher in most markets across the U.S. during the year.

Whenever he comes up, he pops in. He likes his shellfish and his fresh salmon. He's the first to let you know if it's not what he wants, but he's a great customer and very down-to-earth.

This will be questioned; it will be challenged. But in the end, we have to accept that God is working his plan. That must be true, or this whole thing we're living is a big joke.

The Grand's giant oak trees weathered the storm very well and today remain as majestic as ever.

Ultimately, which process you choose will depend on the appetite for risk at a company. We've seen both ends of the spectrum. A lot of initial projects people take on are because it solves problems that couldn't be solved before or are not really achievable with alternative technology.

We might just be at the point where the utility of the Internet stalls--and perhaps turns downward.

Construction activity in our key states continues to be very strong.

I've been sick for awhile and I haven't been wrestling like I should. I needed to get my conditioning back up.

These albums are some of the most exciting and rare finds I have had in the 20 years I have been a book dealer - because they are personal collections that are completely unique.

Ours is a business with a lot of questions from clients. If you can answer most questions satisfactorily, the next step to conversion is much easier. It seemed a natural for us.

Ours is a business with a lot of questions from clients.

You need to overlay the business reality. You probably want to have a check on how those business processes map to the technology architecture. Step three is about defining a technical strategy for implementing these business services using available technology.

This is the first time I've ever seen or heard that a developer wants to do the show back to back. And the builders wanted to be in on it again. That's unheard of.

This indicates a wider culture of control and intolerance of dissent.

A lot of what SOA is about, what's fundamentally different about SOA, is that it's about defining what services mean to the business. Business and technology together need to map the enterprise. That's fundamentally not a technology activity, although the techies can help there by pushing the conversation in the right direction.

There's a lot of community pride, and a lot of change coming now that they're not digging up the streets.

There's a lot of people who come by, and the recognition is fine. Any time someone pulls off the interstate, they spend a dime. And that's a dime we normally wouldn't have.

It seems the homes that are real popular are the ones that are at the low end of the price distribution. I attribute some of that to the second-home phenomenon.

It's taken a while, but we are happy with what's been taking place. We are pleased the city and county are working on this now.

The Australian wine industry has been going through the industry equivalent of the perfect storm.

I'm not at all picking on the Internet -- the Internet does what it does well, ... But there are some things where you say, 'That doesn't work right.'

I knew we were going to win. I knew if we were just patient and we fought, everything was going to come to us.

If you look at the Internet today, it does what it does really well. It's profound, but we can look at it and see some things that aren't right. The most obvious is that there is no framework for security.

Clearly, the results for the quarter and their impact on fiscal 1998 do not meet our expectations or standards. However, we believe that the factors causing this near-term weakness in certain of our diversified businesses are not long-lasting.

I don't know if we exactly want to do that,

I am very proud of the team and thought we won it up front. We started well and put them on the back foot. But the Japanese are world class when they spin it wide.

I am pleased to let you know that the Grand will be Grander than ever.

I don't like going to the doctor, so I just let it go. But it just continued to get worse, and after they did the blood work, they found out it was mono.

The first step is the company taking a strategic decision that it wants to move along an SOA roadmap. It's a strategic decision that's potentially going to change how you go about building and developing software for years to come.