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“If chess is a vast jungle, computers are the chainsaws in a giant environmentally insensitive logging company.”

Ifs Company Computer Chess Giants Jungle Insensitive Chainsaw Logging

“There's really five companies who control 90% of what we read, see, and hear.”

“We never let go. Ever. Even with punctuation. It's frightening. I can't see anyone from any record company ever writing an email to Neil and not getting it back, with corrections.”

Writing I Can Company Records Letting Go Scary Frightening Email Corrections Record Companies Punctuation Never Let Go

Author:Chris Lowe

“Engineers are not the only professional designers. Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones. The intellectual activity that produces material artefacts is no different fundamentally from the one that prescribes remedies for a sick patient or the one that devises a new sales plan for a company or a social welfare policy for a state.”

Different States Action Courses Social Company Situation Plans Policy Design Produce Materials Activity Intellectual Sick Patient Welfare Designer Engineers Remedy Social Welfare Artefacts

Author:Herbert Simon

“People from my first home say I'm brave. They tell me I'm strong. They pat me on the back and say, 'Way to go. Good job.' But the truth is, I am not really very brave; I am not really very strong; and I am not doing anything spectacular. I am simply doing what God has called me to do as a person who follows Him. He said to feed His sheep and He said to care for 'the least of these,' so that's what I'm doing, with the help of a lot people who make it possible and in the company of those who make my life worth living”

People Way Firsts Persons Said Helping Home Care Jobs Strong Company Truth Is Brave Very Strong Sheep Good Job Spectacular Worth Living Life Worth Living First Home

Author:Katie Davis

“Darkness comes. In the middle of it, the future looks blank. The temptation to quit is huge. Don't. You are in good company... You will argue with yourself that there is no way forward. But with God, nothing is impossible. He has more ropes and ladders and tunnels out of pits than you can conceive. Wait. Pray without ceasing. Hope.”

Way Looks Waiting Company Darkness Impossible Middle Huge Praying Arguing Quitting Temptation Blank Rope Ladders Pits Tunnels Good Company Nothing Is Impossible Way Forward

Author:John Piper

“Tech executives have historically been owners of significant portions of their companies' stock so there is a propensity for them to diversify as a rule.”

Company Technology Significant Owners Executives Portions Propensity

Author:David Coleman

“Make every decision as if you owned the company.”

Ifs Decision Company

Book:Further Up the Organization

Source: Further Up the Organization

“In both life and work, stay flexible. Whether in a country, a company, or a family, the same holds true: Dictatorship and rigidity rarely work. Freedom and elasticity do.”

Country Company Dictatorship Flexibility Flexible Rigidity Elasticity

Author:Robert Mondavi

“Of all mechanics, of all servile handycrafts-men, a gamester is the vilest. But yet, as many of the quality are of the profession, he is admitted amongst the politest company.”

Men Quality Company Profession Gambling Mechanic Gamble

Book:The Beggar's Opera and Polly

Source: The Beggar's Opera and Polly

“Building a World Class Company is a commitment to the integration of passion, purpose, and practice.”

World Purpose Passion Company Class Practice Building Commitment Integration World Class

Author:Michael Gerber

“Faith shall save your Soul from Death. Without Faith, Death is a drowning, the end of ends, and what sane man wouldn't fear that? But with Faith, Death is nothing worse than the end of the voyage we call life, and the beginning of an eternal voyage in a company of our Loved Ones, with griefs and woes smoothed out, and under the capacity of our Creator.”

Men Love Soul Ends Age Grief Company Eternal Capacity Creator Your Soul Loved Ones Sane Woe Drowning Voyages

Author:David Mitchell

“Profanity is filthiness. A person is known as much by his language as he is by the company he keeps...Filthiness in any form is degrading and soul-destroying and should be avoided.”

Should Persons Soul Form Language Company Known Destroying Avoided Degrading Profanity

Author:Joseph Fielding Smith

“If a company is distributing images and video then obviously they need bandwidth solutions. But if they are looking to the mass market then they must develop WAP sites.”

Ifs Needs Company Mass Solutions Video Site Bandwidth

Author:Jack London

“It's all part of the same ball of wax, right? The oil companies, Israel, Halliburton.”

Politics Company Balls Israel Oil Oil Companies

Author:Michael Moore

“You simply can't be tentative in a startup. You have to go for it at every chance you get. And if the leader of the organization is anxious, his or her fear pervades the organization. Everything comes from the top in a company. So if you are starting a company or building one, face your fears and move past them. It's critically important to your company.”

Ifs Important Past Faces Moving Chance Company Leader Building Organization Starting Anxious Face Your Fears

Author:Fred Wilson

“Vanity, I am sensible, is my cardinal vice and cardinal folly; and I am in continual danger, when in company, of being led an ignis fatuus chase by it.”

Company Danger Vices Vanity Folly Sensible Cardinals

Book:The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

Source: The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

“Natural amiableness is too often seen in company with sloth, with uselessness, with the vanity of fashionable life.”

Natural Company Friends Vanity Fashionable Sloth Uselessness

Author:William Ellery Channing

“So dress and conduct yourself so that people who have been in your company will not recall what you had on.”

People Has Beens Company Fashion Dresses Recalls

Author:John Newton

“Seriously, we are in the midst of the convergence of voice and data and that is challenging the infrastructure of the telephone companies. There are huge commercial interests in the basic technology, but even more so in content delivery and control of content.”

Voice Interest Challenges Company Technology Huge Data Midst Telephones Infrastructure Delivery Convergence

Author:Steve Crocker

“Maybe we should be directing our anger elsewhere - like toward Wall Street. Why is it we never think of Big Business when we think of welfare recipients? Companies take more of our tax dollars, and in much more questionable ways, than do those who are trying to heat their apartments with a kerosene stove.”

Thinking Way Should Trying Bigs Business Company Streets Wall Taxes Dollars Welfare Heat Elsewhere Apartment Big Business Questionable Stoves Tax Dollars Welfare Recipients

Author:Michael Moore

“I thought I'd be wasting my time to go to commercial record companies and make demos for them, because don't forget, I was doing what I was doing and nobody understood what I was doing.”

Forget Company Records Understood My Time Record Companies Wasting My Time Demos

Author:John Fahey

“The big companies and their short-term bottom line rule this country.”

Country Bigs Term Lines Company Bottom Bottom Line Short Term Big Companies

Author:Alexandra Paul

“Tobacco companies are legally operating entities in Australia. If the Government thinks that they should not make donations to political parties, well then they should ban them operating as legally structured entities in Australia.”

Ifs Thinking Should Wells Government Political Party Company Australia Entity Political Parties Tobacco Bans Donation

Author:Julie Bishop

“Just as old age is creeping on space, And clouds come o'er the sunset of our day, They kindly leave us, though not quite alone, But in good company--the gout or stone.”

Age Space Company Stones Clouds Old Age Sunset Good Company Gout

Author:Lord Byron

“A boycott would send a clear message to Yahoo shareholders and other companies which cheerfully sacrifice human rights in return for a cut of the Chinese market.”

Humans Company Clear Cutting Rights Sacrifice Return Messages Human Rights Chinese Cheerfulness Shareholders Boycott

Author:Simon Davies

“Pay-TV companies that built their businesses on the backs of local and network broadcast signals should pay a fair price for access to that high-value programming.”

Should Values Pay Company Tvs Built Fairs Access Locals Programming Signals

Author:Gordon Smith

“That a joint stock company should be able to carry on successfully any branch of foreign trade, when private adventurers can come into any sort of open and fair competition with them, seems contrary to all experience.”

Should Seems Able Company Fairs Trade Competition Contrary Branches Joints Adventurer Foreign Trade Joint Stock Company

Book:An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations

Source: An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations

“A crowd is not necessarily company, but neither need it necessarily prevent thought or disturb peace of mind.”

Needs Mind Company Crowds Peace Of Mind

Book:On Peace and Happiness

Source: On Peace and Happiness

“Heroes do not easily tolerate the company of other heroes.”

Company Hero Tolerate

Book:Civilisation

Source: Civilisation

“He that is choice of his time will be choice of his company, and choice of his actions.”

Action Choices Company

Book:The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor

Source: The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor

“I would gladly say 'Heil Hitler!' and at once part company with him, realizing what a pitiable insult it is to such a great man to try to flatter him with such an imitation which he has always disdained. His way is for Germany, ours is for Britain; let us tread our paths with mutual respect, which is rarely increased by borrowing.”

Men Way Trying Realizing Company Path Germany Britain Insult Great Men Mutual Imitation Borrowing Mutual Respect

Author:William Joyce

“Competition is a great thing and critically important in any industry. I respect the companies that build their brand through innovation/great product, packaging, sharp marketing and clever ideas.”

Important Ideas Company Products Industry Innovation Competition Marketing Clever Great Things Brands Packaging

Author:John Robinson

“Digital technology has eaten classic radio as we know it. Independent stations with disc jockeys who chose their own music have all gone; it's these huge parent companies that own a hundred stations and then decide what we should hear.”

Knows Should Parent Company Technology Gone Huge Hundred Independent Radio Classic Digital Stations Discs Jockeys Digital Technology

Author:Joe Walsh

“I was writing for a publishing company in this old building right next to the RCA Victor Studio in Nashville. We were on the top floor, and Combine Music was on the bottom floor. I was friends with all those guys.”

Writing Guy Next Company Building Bottom Studios Publishing Nashville Old Buildings

Author:Donnie Fritts

“I spend a lot of my time just developing material; or the company does. That material can come from a book, can come from a newspaper, can come from a discussion and sometimes it can come from a script that got passed over and is floating around.”

Doe Book Sometimes Company Materials Scripts Newspapers Developing Discussion My Time Floating

Author:Ridley Scott

“I've been a professional athlete, I've directed films, I've run a company with 150 employees, and nothing compares to writing a screenplay. Just the second I think I know what I'm doing, the rug gets pulled out and I have no idea what I'm doing. Because there are so many problems to solve.”

Thinking Knows Writing Ideas Problem Running Film Company Athlete Solve No Idea Compare Employee Screenplays Professional Athlete

Author:Stacy Peralta

“You really want to have a back-up plan, so when you don't feel like acting, or you're getting older and settling down, you can produce your own stuff. So that's when I set about forming my own company and getting creative control.”

Want Feels Stuff My Own Acting Company Creative Plans Produce Settling Getting Old Getting Older Settling Down

Author:Denis Leary

“I don't get particularly precious about things like this, though. Like the record company said, "We need a radio edit that delivers the hook" - I don't even know what they consider the hook in that song ["Oh No"] - "that delivers the hook sooner." So I'm like, "Okay. I see that." And they were all walking on eggshells, like is this going to be sacrilegious to me or something, to mess with this art I've created? And I'm like, "Great. I get to tinker with it, I get to mess with my song some more."”

Knows Needs Art Said Song Company Records Walking Okay Radio Mess Hook Edits Record Companies Sacrilegious Eggshells Walking On Eggshells

Author:Andrew Bird

“It really was a hell of a motorcycle, ..It was arguably the first American motorcycle company, beating Harley by a year or so. Indian was the standard by which everything was gauged.”

Years Firsts Company Hell Standards Indian Motorcycle Bikers Harley

Author:Jerry Springer

“It's not an easy task building a motorcycle company. Your window for success is relatively small. You can't afford a lot of hiccups if you don't have another business supporting you.”

Ifs Easy Company Building Tasks Window Motorcycle Bikers Easy Tasks Hiccups

Author:Robert Evans

“The first time I took acid, I made the decision that I would stay in New York and find an independent film company to get a job with.”

Firsts Made Jobs Film Decision Company New York First Time Independent Acid Independent Film

Author:Lloyd Kaufman

“I definitely want to start my own production company at some point. I'm actually teaming up with Funny or Die to put together a TV show right now, that I can't really talk about because it's still in the very preliminary stages, but if it pans out this will be the first project under my production company, which I have yet to name.”

Ifs Want Firsts Stills I Can Shows Together Dies Names My Own Company Stage Tvs Right Now Projects Productions Tv Shows Funny Or Die Teaming Up

Author:Dave Franco

“It's a completely independent atelier and company. We develop the prototypes here. There's a pattern maker, a sample maker, a commercial team, a head of sales, an in-house production team. That's the price of independence. And in the studio I work closely with Sarah-Linh on the collection, and Nao takes care of development.”

Care House Company Team Development Independent Independence Patterns Productions Studios Take Care Collections Makers Sample Prototype

Author:Christophe Lemaitre

“Most of my company is run by women. There's a certain sensitivity to what I want to express, so that's what I want around me.”

Want Running Certain Company Sensitivity

Author:Pharrell Williams

“I do enjoy my own company. I cannot imagine anybody entertaining me more than I do. If it sounds selfish, I don't care. I made it a religion almost.”

Ifs Made Care Enjoy Sound My Own Company Imagine Don't Care Selfish Made It I Don't Care Entertaining

Author:Manolo Blahnik

“He who walks in the company of fools suffers much. Company with fools, as with an enemy, is always painful. Company with the wise is pleasure, like meeting with kinfolk.”

Suffering Walks Pleasure Company Enemy Wise Fool Meetings Painful Buddhist Kinfolk

Author:Gautama Buddha

“One of the biggest challenges in the past for me in working on the networks was that audiences have grown accustomed to television being something that keeps you company-background music, something that you have on while you're flipping through a magazine, cooking dinner, talking on the phone, putting the kids to bed.”

Kids Past Challenges Company Talking Audience Television Bed Cooking Phones Dinner Backgrounds Magazines Accustomed Background Music Talking On The Phone Cooking Dinner

Author:Aaron Sorkin

“I think the consumption of music is at an all-time high. But I think the ways that record companies are trying to monetize it is just all over the place. At the end of the day, music is in the clouds. Before, you could hold it, look at it, turn it around. Now, it's just in the air.”

Thinking Way Trying Looks Ends Turns Company Records Air Music Is Clouds All Time The End Of The Day Consumption Record Companies

Author:Jay-Z

“At college, I felt frustrated thinking three years was a long time and I just wanted a job but afterwards I was in employment the whole time. I got into a theatre company and started doing stand-up gigs for cash, so I lived hand-to-mouth, but there was always enough to pay the bills.”

Thinking Years Long Enough Whole Hands Wanted Jobs Three Felt Pay Company College Long Time Mouths Bills Theatre Employment Three Years Cash Frustrated Gigs

Author:Bill Bailey

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