John Carlin Quotations

Mike's more our speed. He's versatile and more laid-back.

But Garrett was a rock 'n' roller. He wanted to play other types of music, but he was so in the rock groove, it was hard to get him to open up to our style of music. We made it work, but we became a harder type of band.

We said, let's use that one until we think of something better. And of course we never thought of anything better.

Computers was the big boom. I thought I wanted to be a computer engineer. Which is ridiculous. Because I was a musician.

They gave you a string instrument - I got a violin. Gave it to me. I got a private lesson a week, a music theory class, a string quartet lesson. Then we all got together for the orchestra. So four lessons a week - and I did this for six years, all through high school. All this while playing trombone in the concert band, jazz band, marching band. And singing in the a cappella chorus and drama club. And on the side, I was in two rock bands, hack garage bands.

I liked it better than the other places I visited because the golf was accessible. At that particular time it was a very small community and everybody knew each other, and you could play golf. I worked for Sea Pines and I played those courses more than anybody.

A private company can't compete against the resources of the second largest economy in the world.

If you have an Internet-connected system, there's no wall currently that you can build that's high enough or deep enough to keep a dedicated nation-state or even a sophisticated criminal group out of your system.

Messi is much more than being clever. He is a genius who reserves all his expressiveness for football.