John Perry Quotations

We believe that the Report on Compliance concludes that CardSystems meets the PCI standard. We are hopeful that MasterCard, Visa, American Express and Discover will accept this PCI report and validate that CardSystems is PCI compliant. The data security protocols currently in place at CardSystems make it one of the data security leaders among payment processors in the payment card industry.

But after a few weeks, the buzzing in your head subsides.

I had it figured that Jerry Kern could win his division, but he got beat by a couple of pounds.

He had a banged-up senior year and never got recovered. He's the most talented player on the team. He needs to get a little tougher. If he does, he'll be a good football player.

We had a little crisis when Matt and Sarah had to replace their shower curtain liner and we said no. But we put the word out and someone found one for them. It's like the Amish - we help each other out. We raise a barn every week.

It would make huge economic sense. All the illegal Irish I've met here are quite proud to feel American.

I'm excited. He'll be a great asset to our program. He may not have been around football for several years, but a quality coach can coach anything.

I'm disappointed that they knew they were building on wetlands and they destroyed them,

In performing its assessment, AmbironTrustWave scrutinized every aspect of our operations. AmbironTrustWave audited the security of our network, the steps that our 110 employees take to safeguard cardholder data, our vulnerability management program, our information security policy and our ability to regularly monitor and test our network.

I quit. They are not going to kill me.

He's one of the strongest players (for Kosciusko). He'll be a starter at Itawamba, no doubt.

Plan your day with an eye to your tendency to procrastinate, and put in safeguards to keep it to a minimum.

Taking a long time to do something not worth doing, that is, doing it inefficiently, seems even more useless.

I was surprised by how many people think of themselves as procrastinators, but, like me, seem to get a lot done anyway.

The essence is that many procrastinators are "structured procrastinators," people who, like me, get a lot done as a way of not working on what they should ideally be working on.

While procrastinating is not a flaw, being a structured procrastinator is actually one way of being pretty productive.

You may lack will power, but that doesn't mean you can't take a lot of steps to make yourself more productive.

Nothing focuses attention like a real deadline. If you are in a field where life and death, or having a job or not having a job, depends on not missing deadlines, you need to learn to manipulate yourself to meet them; often a good way of doing this is teaming up with non-procrastinators.

The fantasy of doing a task perfectly is common with procrastinators; they set the bar for success very high. Then they are afraid to approach it. As the deadline approaches, they must set the bar lower.

Task triage is the habit of making a realistic assessment of what degree of perfection is required for a task at the point of accepting it, so one doesn't need to rely on one's habit of procrastinating to lower the bar.

Voltaire was a smart cookie.

The anceints devoted a lifetime to the study of arithmetic; it required days to extract a square root or to multiply two numbers together. Is there any harm in skipping all that, in letting the school boy learn multiplication sums, and in starting his more abstract reasoning at a more advanced point. Where would be the harm in letting the boy assume the truth of many propositions of the first four books of Euclid, letting him assume their truth partly by faith, partly by trial?

Hope provides comfort, and hope does not always require probability.

The emergence of China is driving fundamental change in the Asia-Pacific region. This process will provide an opportunity for Brunei Darussalam to re-position itself within the regional economies.