“Before Google, I don't think people put much effort into the ordering of results. You might get a couple thouand results for a query. We saw that a thousand results weren't necessarily as useful as 10 good ones.” PeopleThinkingMightResultsEffortSawsCoupleThousandGoogleQueries Author:Sergey Brin
“The result is a picture that represents so much of what I want and rarely get from a movie - a couple of hours filled with characters who are as exciting as the people I know in real life.” PeopleKnowsWantRealCharacterHoursResultsCoupleExcitingFilledReal Life Author:Gene Siskel
“Net result [of the Dept. of Agriculture's Payment in Kind - PIK - program]: total farm income, now expected to be around $25 billion, this fiscal year, will exceed total federal subsidies by only a couple of billion. You could argue that those fellows out there on the fruited plain are in effect working for the federal government and that, therefore, the U.S. now has socialized agriculture under the Reagan Administration. Rich, eh?” YearsKindGovernmentResultsRichEffectsCoupleProgramFellowsExpectedArguingBillionsIncomeAdministrationFarmsAgricultureFederal GovernmentAmerican PoliticsPaymentExceedSubsidies Author:Daniel Seligman
“Directing takes a good chunk of your life out. It's a very hard thing. As an actor, you go in for a couple of months and do your job, and then you move onto another one. As a director, it's with you for quite some time and you're responsible for the entire thing, whether the results are good or bad, or whether people throw darts at you or put you on a pedestal.” PeopleHardJobsMovingActorsResultsMonthsCoupleDirectorsResponsibleHard ThingsChunksPedestalDarts Author:Billy Bob Thornton