“We have seven pillars of development. India has a cutting edge information technology industry. We are setting up a technology park. We would like to see technology penetration iin education. Besides, we would like to see cooperation in industries like fashion, filmmaking, ship-building, education, health and energy.” EnergyTechnologyCuttingFashionInformationBuildingDevelopmentIndustryIndiaSevenEdgesSettingShipsSettingsParksCooperationFilmmakingPillarsInformation TechnologyCutting EdgePenetration Author:Kamla Persad-Bissessar
“I thought, 'Okay, what's going to be my edge, and how am I going to define what I'm doing differently?' Once I had that key idea of the software developer as an artist, once I had that idea, a whole bunch of other ideas flowed from that, because I realized that I need to go study the music industry, I need to study the book publishing and Hollywood and figure out how they do things, why they do them that way, and then I need to borrow, and rearrange, the things that they're doing to fit my industry so that I can invent and create this new industry.” WayNeedsI CanBookIdeasWholeArtistStudyFiguresKeysIndustryFitOkayHollywoodEdgesI RealizedBunchSoftwarePublishingMusic IndustryDevelopersBook Publishing Author:Trip Hawkins
“I saw the 'Popstars' programme and to me it looked more like 'Opportunity Knocks' than the kind of cutting-edge postmoderism that The Guardian would like to have us believe it was. I think what it's more about is the public and the music industry's bloodlust. It's just like someone itching to say 'Oh, confound it all, let's bring back hanging, that was good entertainment'.” ThinkingBelieveKindOpportunitySawsCuttingIndustryEdgesEntertainmentGuardianMusic IndustryProgrammesCutting EdgeOpportunity KnocksItchingBloodlust Author:Luke Haines
“Health care costs blunt the competitive edge of American entrepreneurs, from the auto industry to internet start-ups.” CareStupidIndustryInternetCostEntrepreneurEdgesHealth CareBluntAuto IndustryHealth Care Costs Author:Tom Allen
“America's economic strength depends on industry's ability to improve productivity and quality and to remain on the cutting edge of technology, and that's why the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award is so important.” ImportantAmericaAbilityQualityTechnologyCuttingEconomicDependsIndustryEdgesProductivityAwardsCutting Edge Author:Ronald Reagan
“Amazon has included me in an opportunity to provide top-shelf television-style programming live on the world's computer screens. To hold forth with the industry's very best actors, directors, musicians, authors - I'm thrilled to be on the cutting edge of this.” WorldActorsOpportunityCuttingStyleTelevisionIndustryDirectorsComputerMusicianEdgesScreensProgrammingShelvesAmazonCutting EdgeComputer Screen Author:Bill Maher
“It is not simply that these two cities are perched side by side at the edge of the Pacific; it is that adolescence sits next to middle age, and they don't know how to relate to each other. In a way, these two cities exist in different centuries. San Diego is a post-industrial city talking about settling down, slowing down, building clean industry. Tijuana is a preindustrial city talking about changing, moving forward, growing. Yet they form a single metropolitan area.” KnowsWayTwoDifferentAgeMovingFormNextSidesCitiesTalkingKnow HowGrowingMiddleCenturyBuildingIndustryAreasCleanEdgesMoving ForwardPostsRelateSettlingAdolescenceSlow DownMiddle AgesPacificSettling DownSlowingSan DiegoMetropolitanTijuana Author:Richard Rodriguez
“Hollywood is a cottage industry involving a very small number of people, and around the edges are enormous numbers of people trying to get into it and work.” PeopleTryingNumbersIndustryHollywoodEdgesEnormousInvolvingCottagesSmall Numbers Author:Peter Stone