As long as we can make them smaller, we can make them faster.

The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it's too late.

If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?

Anyone can build a fast CPU. The trick is to build a fast system.

I just bought a Mac to help me design the next Cray.

As long as we can make them smaller, we can make them faster.

Parity is for farmers.

Differences dont just threaten and divide us. They also inform enrich and enliven us.

Genre boundaries are good for marketing but they all but disappear when you're a player.

When I drove up on the set one day, and they'd put up a sign that says 'The Bill Engvall Show,' I stood there for 20 minutes just staring at it. The director, James Widdoes, came up and said, 'What are you doing?' And I said, 'Look at this! There's my name on a stage door in Hollywood!'

I am an organization freak!

Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas.

We should all be involved in the avant-garde as long as we look toward the past.

We've created rigidities at the entrance point in artisanal occupations.

It is women who bear the race in bloody agony. Suffering is a kind of horror. Blood is a kind of horror. Women are born with horror in their very bloodstream. It is a biological thing.

There is no sense in making statements that will not continue to be true after they are made.

The best book I read this year was 'The Da Vinci Code.'

I don't want to compare my city to Zurich; thank God we're not that boring. Rio is advancing fast, but we're at a different phase in our civilization.

When sustainability is viewed as being a matter of survival for your business, I believe you can create massive change.

You shut the door, you tell the boss exactly what you think. But when the door opens, the job of the vice president is to stand right next to the president and implement the policy that he's decided. And I'm prepared to do that.

My debut feature, 'The Baby-Sitters Club,' got good reviews and made good money for what it cost. But it took me six years to get to direct my second feature. I think a guy would have had another movie out the same year.

Grieving is a necessary passage and a difficult transition to finally letting go of sorrow it is not a permanent rest stop.

My idea of management is that what your job is as the boss is to find really good people and empower them and leave them alone.

Only peril can bring the French together. One can't impose unity out of the blue on a country that has 265 different kinds of cheese.

When you get to the 35-year mark in your career, you make albums for your fans to love you more, so they don't forget about you.

Mathematicians themselves set up standards of generality and elegance in their exposition which are a bar to understand.

Good lies need a leavening of truth to make them palatable.

Farmers the world over, in dealing with costs, returns and risks, are calculating economic agents. Within their small, individual, allocative domain, they are fine-tuning entrepreneurs, tuning so subtly that many experts fail to recognize how efficient they are.

When I was a child, I was unable to go to any type of sleepaway summer camp because of health issues. Once I learned about the Lopez Foundation, I knew I wanted to get involved, send kids with kidney disease away to camp so they can still experience overnight camp with medical needs at hand.

California deserves whatever it gets. Californians invented the concept of life style. This alone warrants their doom.

I've been using the same editor, thankfully, she's been sticking with me, but I've been doing it full-on guerilla style... I haven't gotten any public sponsor or anything, because I don't want to seem like I'm trying to sell any particular thing.