Adequacy is sufficient.

I liken myself to Henry Ford and the auto industry, I give you 90 percent of what most people need.

There'll be a special place in hell for the tape back-up people.

We can learn from IBM's successful history that you don't have to have the best product to become number one. You don't even have to have a good product.

With bundled machines you can throw away the hardware and keep the software, and it's still a good buy.

The small businessman is smart; he realizes there's no free lunch. On the other hand, he knows where to go to get a good inexpensive sandwich.

The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake - you can't learn anything from being perfect.

I take what I see work. I'm a strict believer in the scientific principle of believing nothing, only taking the best evidence available at the present time, interpreting it as best you can, and leaving your mind open to the fact that new evidence will appear tomorrow.

The future lies in designing and selling computers that people don't realize are computers at all.

This is the ultimate con game - I'm having fun and people pay me to do it.

People think computers will keep them from making mistakes. They're wrong. With computers you make mistakes faster.

Venture capitalists are like lemmings jumping on the software bandwagon.

The guy who knows about computers is the last person you want to have creating documentation for people who don't understand computers.

Money coming in says I've made the right marketing decisions.

Adequacy is sufficient.

In all things give thanks.

Somewhere along the line the rhythms and tonalities of music elided in my brain with the sounds that words make and the rhythm that sentences have.

I keep attacking the villains, the know-nothings, the people who want to take our freedoms away.

Cobras are magical. They can stand up on just energy alone.

There’s nothing wrong with staying small. You can do big things with a small team.

The worst thing about Halloween is, of course, candy corn. It's unbelievable to me. Candy corn is the only candy in the history of America that's never been advertised. And there's a reason. All of the candy corn that was ever made was made in 1911. And so, since nobody eats that stuff, every year there's a ton of it left over.

If a job is worth doing, it's worth doing poorly first.

Where liberty dies, evil grows.

Sometimes we see the Civil War in movies and imagine these neatly aligned rows of men with muskets, walking in line to shoot each other. In reality the things that fascinated me were how absolutely ruthless and violent so many engagements were, how much suffering and how men were not prepared.

With the media how it is these days, people expect to know everything. I don't talk about my girlfriend because essentially she doesn't want to be talked about.

Writing became such a process of discovery that I couldn't wait to get to work in the morning: I wanted to know what I was going to say.

All time management begins with planning.

But still try, for who knows what is possible?

I didn't have any knowledge of the music industry when I first got to L.A., and I really didn't know on a creative level what I wanted to sound like, so I had to do a lot of experimenting. It led to a spiral of depression and being broke.

My m.o. as far as choosing projects is I really try not to work. I try to not do the scripts that are offered me.

I've been dealing with the press for 45 years. You need a very long spoon to sup with them. While you are always grateful, they are like badly trained dogs. They smile and wag and bite your arm off.

At Wal-Mart, if you couldn't explain an idea or a concept in simple terms on one page of paper Sam Walton considered the new idea too complicated to implement.

As a football coach, everything in your life comes after your football schedule. I just could not make that commitment.

I want to be living out of a suitcase in a different city every day.

I was always interested in photography and other forms of art.

Listen, if you said to me, 'Adam Shankman is going to direct you in a musical and you have six months to learn how to tap,' I'd practice till I was blue in the face. I would do it because I'm so headstrong and think I can do anything. But just to show up and sing a little ditty, no.

It's odd because some actors are very scared of comedians.

When I used to perform weddings, the image I always had was the image of a triangle, in which there are two partners and then there is this third force, this third being, that emerges out of the interaction of these two. The third one is the one that is the shared awareness that lies behind the two of them.

He gave us the lakes for our Northern boundary, and the rivers stretching to the seas upon whose waters floats our commerce to the nations of the world; while man has done all that can be done by science to bind us together.