And we invested three hundred thousand dollars, became the lead investor and I became Chairman of the Board of Scientific Data Systems, as I was at Intel for a while.

I was one of the founders in, in that, the three of us all had the, had the founder's stock.

So I, I knew something in a business sense about semiconductors and I appreciated their possibilities.

I think they, Peter McCullough was, turns out was not a good CEO.

People come in with business plans and, I mean I know that no one is going to meet everything they say in a business plan but you got to have something to, to guide towards.

IBM decided they were going to enter the copying business in 1968.

Well, I was born and raised in Rochester, New York.

I mean I wasn't a founder in the sense that I contributed anything scientifically but in the sense that I signed the corporation papers and, and owned founder's stock.

And we invested three hundred thousand dollars, became the lead investor and I became Chairman of the Board of Scientific Data Systems, as I was at Intel for a while.

You know, a lot of people are just interested in, in building a company so they can make money and get out.

And what I'm interested in is investing in people.

Killing Intel, I, I just had to resign from the Apple Board.

Which, the first meeting with anybody is, you know, everybody is on their best behavior. It's only after you get to know them for a while that you figure out.

And then lo and behold IBM, Apple and Motorola took an ad in all the newspapers, double page ad, and said, announcing the chip that they were now able to manufacture it and that they were going to kill Intel.

My father was an immigrant from Russia and my mother was first generation.

Stop pretending there's anything wrong with businesspeople hiring diligent laborers who will work for less. Let employers sponsor any worker and argue for why that worker should be given citizenship. Such a vetting mechanism would naturally promote the best and hardest-working.

There's probably about 150 charters in the world. We're the biggest international club there is.

I always keep my guard up with guys and I guess that can get in the way sometimes. I can make them go through hell.

Taming the financial markets and winning back democratic control over them is the central condition for creating a new social balance in Germany and Europe.

A sparkling house is a fine thing if the children aren't robbed of their luster in keeping it that way.

I know that all things are possible through Jesus Christ.

I wish the rock 'n' roll scene to be back in.

Discover the time of day when you write best, and write then. For me it's about 7 am to noon. For other people it's overnight. Try not to do anything other than write between those times.

All I want to do is be a good dad, but I'm pretty bad at it.

We are finding new areas in the ocean every day. It's as alien as going to outer space.

I don't know about style mistakes.

I think it reaffirmed something that I believed in and conceptually always had faith in which was that you're most effective when you work as a team. I love that about filmmaking. I stopped playing team sports at 15-16 because of acting. I think I find a kind of new team sport in filmmaking in a way.

I get into lab early and leave a bit early, too. So I like to have an hour or two before everybody comes in.

No one can understand the truth until he drinks of coffees frothy goodness.

I was a hockey player. I played hockey forever. That was my life and my job until I got injured, so I get sports, and I get the sports atmosphere, the feeling around other athletes, but I never played football.

It isn't hard to be in a relationship because I've always loved to be in a relationship, and I love to be in love.

Any private security is a joke in a country where you're up against your own government.

I remember once being told by a casting person, years ago, that I shouldn't pursue a career in the business because of the color of my skin. The fact that I remember it today means it stuck with me. I thought that was really stupid advice and advice nobody should ever give someone.

I never expected the White House to be warm, and the artwork on the walls was extraordinary. I am a fan of the Louvre, but being there it was almost just as good.

The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do.

I don't know if fame will come.

Definition of a victim: a person to whom life happens.

When you're out of quality, you're out of business.

As I understand it, laws, commands, rules and edicts are for those who have not the light which makres plain the pathway.