Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mitch Kapor

The widespread adoption of broadband and the continued advances in personal computing technology are finally making it possible for the collective creation of an online world on a realistic scale.

Greg Sterling

The wireless stuff is pretty far out. It'll be a few years at least before there is widespread adoption of wireless search.

Don Ryan

This issue of the Internet or Internet-based services being less reliable is disappearing. We did not find that this was a barrier to adoption of IP services.

John Bolton

The United States is very pleased at the council's unanimous adoption

Loren Loverde

Currently, the economic environment is not the critical factor affecting PC adoption cycles. What we're seeing now is a combination of PC replacements and new users responding to low-price milestones.

Scott Simon

There are times when the adoption process is exhausting and painful and makes you want to scream. But, I am told, so does childbirth.

Shaw Wu

No one had any doubt they would reach 1 million (downloads). But I think the speed of adoption is ahead of expectations. It's a good sign for Apple, and its strategy.

Matt Dubay

I was trying to talk reason, to try and have a two-way conversation. She considered an adoption but then quickly stopped listening.

Matt Wagner

Wireless, more than any other technology, is driving the adoption of our business notebook line. Staying connected when you're on the road is fundamental to the value proposition of a notebook.

Hu Jintao

The significance of the conference has since been made more and more evident by the advances of women's development cause worldwide,

Ian Cameron

This is the first time that these two giants in the industry have gotten behind advances in technology and standards in a big way.

Laura Wade

I am interested in the way advances in medicine and palliative care mean more people now have the opportunity to plan their own deaths, and also plan for those who are left behind. What does that do to the grieving process?

Chris Jones

Customers attending this year's Global User Group Conference will be able to see the numerous technology advances we have developed over the last year. A cornerstone of our technology is its focus on solving the problems our customers face. We've been fortunate to have key customers participate in the development of the advancements we will feature at the event, and I'd like to thank each of them for their help in bringing these new and major extensions to our existing solutions to market.

Charles Barkley

Dr. King would be No. 1 thrilled with the racial advances we've made, but he would be disappointed in the state of black America with all this black-on-black crime, teenage pregnancies, kids not getting an education.

Bill Maris

When you apply computer science and machine learning to areas that haven't had any innovation in 50 years, you can make rapid advances that seem really incredible.

William Wagner

But in embryonic, I think there's some truth that we're falling behind because there's a lot that we can't do, ... I think, particularly in Asia, you see a lot of advances that are not happening in the U.S. If you polled U.S. scientists, I think there would be a sense that the U.S. is falling behind.

Col. Powell

Most surgeons will see and do more here in four months than they will in the rest of their career. A lot of advances in medicine can come out of wars.

Dan Dinges

Much of our strategic shift is providing production advances over the next 60 days in the Gulf Coast. This effort sets the stage for Gulf Coast growth in 2006, along with production growth in our East, West and Canada regions.

Meg Whitman

Asia-Pacific is the fastest growing user region with markets like India, China and Korea leading the pack as Internet and broadband penetration rise.

Richard Lowe

The solutions being demonstrated run the gamut from those that serve operators, enterprises and ultimately consumers to new technologies that are changing our lives through broadband wireless connections.

Greg Gorbatenko

The switchover rate (from narrowband to broadband customers) will be key.

Bob Thompson

After a year or two, the number of business jets (with broadband Internet) will far outstrip the number of commercial airlines.

Henry Samueli

Once you used a computer with a broadband connection, you knew you would never be able go back to the old voiceband modem connection - even if it was free.

John Nugent

Now, in order to make money, you have to come out with a new enhancement, and that's broadband data. They have to move to the next sweet spot.

Chris Williams

The risk is that by getting a cheap deal on broadband you'll be paying over the odds for your phone service, but most bundled packages are pretty competitive on both. You might get a slightly cheaper deal by finding the cheapest phone and internet providers separately, but many people are happy to pay slightly more for the convenience of a single package.

Charles Dunstone

First we launched free calls for our customers, today we're launching free broadband forever. Our focus will now be on processing all orders as quickly as possible. Demand is going to be enormous.

Joseph Laszlo

Boosting broadband availability would be helpful for the industry. Right now, however, there's no firm method to turn that into action.

Ayn Rand

I dont work with collectives. I don't consult, i don't co-operate, I don't collaborate.

Carey Pinkowski

The creation of this series will generate collective interest and excitement at a level that has not existed between our great events in the past. The result of these marathons partnering together is increased visibility, exposure, and growth for the sport of marathon running on a national and international scale.

Ken Paulson

USA TODAY is pleased to recognize the achievements of some of the nation's finest teachers, ... Their collective work inspiring and educating the next generation is a testament to their remarkable creativity, passion and commitment.

Stanislav Grof

Ancient eschatological texts are actually maps of the inner territories of the psyche that seem to transcend race and culture and originate in the collective unconscious.

Sydney Pollack

On the one hand, the businessman in me understands it. But the lover of movies in me wants desperately to hang on to the movie house as a collective experience with the audience.

Craig Venter

If anything, we've learned that we don't think this data's going to be as deterministic as was previously thought, ... There is even more need for this legislation until science catches up with our collective ignorance.

Jalal Talabani

He -- with two vice presidents and with the prime minister and his deputies and with the speaker of the house -- they are forming a collective leadership,

Juan Guzman

She represents the pain and collective memory of Chile.

Kofi Annan

By the solemn undertaking they have given here in open court, these eleven men and seven women, representing all regions of the world and many different cultures, have made themselves the embodiment of our collective consciences,

Tim Allen

Developing software is way too hard. I think we just haven't been able to keep up with the huge increase in memory size and computing power.

Michael Willett

This is a whole powerful computing microcosm by itself.

Mike Sievert

We live in a digital world that is filled with more information, more things to do, and more ways to communicate with others than ever. With our Windows Vista product line, we've streamlined and tailored our product lineup to provide what our customers want for today's computing needs.

Mark Stahlman

The transition to 64-bit computing is not in everyone's forecast. PC and server growth should be much higher than people are expecting and numbers for Dell will continue to come up,

David Jackson

Moab Utility/Hosting Suite provides organizations with security, usability and a dynamic utility computing environment. This software will open the door to utility computing for any HPC organization that wants to share resources efficiently.

Clive Smith

As far as their reasons for hunger striking, it seems to be a myriad of different reasons that they all have, the largest one seems to be like they want to protest their continued (detention).

Don Brash

As expected in November, growth in the economies of our trading partners has continued to be sluggish.

Gunter Thielen

During the first half of the year, Bertelsmann established the foundations for continued future growth, ... I am very pleased at our improved return on sales.

Kevin McCarty

Despite the unprecedented string of catastrophic hurricanes, it is reassuring to see a continued interest from new investors,

Jon Johnson

A number of unrelated factors contributed to (the decline in value) and have continued to keep that price low.

Beatriz Merino

A prolonged deterioration in the security environment could relegate economic reforms from the government's top priorities and damage Israel's economic growth prospects and potentially widening fiscal deficits. Conversely, continued progress with the implementation of economic reforms and rapid debt reduction, supported by a stable security environment, could improve the ratings prospects for Israel.

Scott Kriens

The second quarter represents an example of our priorities during these times customer growth, financial discipline, and continued investment in innovation.

Anthony Chan

The small improvement in labor market conditions, despite the continued risks that remain on this front, do suggest that even with all the caveats that Greenspan echoed in his latest testimony ... the Fed might be inclined to move towards a neutral risk bias.

Hubertus Erlen

The strong net sales increase in the first quarter is the continued reflection of our dynamic growth trend of the last year. These excellent figures will propel us towards reaching our set goals for 2006.

Aaron Rowand

After playing 14 innings, when my head finally hits that pillow, I don't think I'm going to have any trouble sleeping tonight.

Lauri Hakala

Sometimes it goes that way, sometimes it doesn't. I've been really mindful of my footwork. I'm happy it finally worked.

Darin Erstad

We're happy that spring training is finally over. It's always fun to get the season under way and to keep score for real.

Dynelle Tadlock

We ran our offense to get open shots and it finally paid off. I wanted the girls to recover from those two losses as a team, and I think we showed we can play team basketball.

Jason Blum

Ethan Hawke is not a horror movie fan, but he's a really good friend of mine, and I finally cajoled him into doing 'Sinister.' Later, he said one of the reasons he was really resistant to doing a horror movie is he thought it'd be really scary on set.

Ellen Gerton

Today we showed up. We finally had the team I thought we should have had a month ago.

Scott Kelly

Today, we should finally get up to about 60. The temperatures are still going to be low, but it's not going to feel as cold.

Tommy Tune

We had a rough start. All shows do. Now it's finally hit its stride.

Mike Garland

We've had some injuries, but we finally have everyone healthy. It was like going into a gunfight with a six-shooter instead of a water pistol.

Timothy Simons

We live in a world in which whatever you do has a parody account online in moments.

Rebecca Ryan

many times, online is the first way a young professional sees the area.

Jeff Bezos

One of the things it was obvious you could do with an online store is have a much more complete selection.

Nathan Fillion

I don't spend a lot of time online.

Paul Petty

They should be inspected on Thursday and online shortly after that.

Donna Mutzenard

It's one thing to just go there, but it's another thing to talk to other people about what they're trying in their schools. You don't get that through online research or watching a DVD.

Bob Clarke

Some questions are of a personal nature, which I don't think should be documented.

Anthony Sampson

Muddle is the extra unknown personality in any committee.

Jane Goodall

To me, trees are living beings and they have their own sort of personalities.

Booth Tarkington

Whatever does not pretend at all has style enough.

Donald Miller

You're always weighing whether you should be that accessible or not, but my personality is naturally just to throw it all out there, so I'm much more comfortable with doing thatmy personality is naturally just to throw it all out there, so I'm much more comfortable with doing that.

Dolly Parton

I was not a natural beauty, and I always wanted to be pretty. I just have such an outgoing personality that it's fitting that I would be overdone.

Chuck Barris

I could never do a show, or be a personality like Howard Stern, where you take all that heat from critics. What he does, he does, but the critical heat would crucify me.

Angie Harmon

My biggest insecurity is that my personality is too much, and as I get older, it's just getting bigger,

Andrei Gromyko

My personality doesn't interest me.

Madhavan Nair

ISRO has made all security arrangements and put on red alert. We are taking all possible steps.

Kiki Vandeweghe

for working with us to make this possible so quickly.

Sean McCormack

She raised (the case) in the strongest possible terms." ()

Pete Carroll

If I'm lucky, I can see 7-8 possible recruits at these meets.

Nick Harper

I was trying to get it as soon as possible and get to where there were no defenders, find a clearing, and score.

Asaf Shariv

We have to prepare for the worst possible scenario.

Greek proverb

It is not possible to step twice into the same river

Tomas Vokoun

I don't feel any pressure. I don't think this has got anything to do with pressure. Sometimes you just play really well, and then get in a slump. Now is the worst possible timing.

Robb Felton

I'd like to see them as soon as possible and get them out. I'm sure they're probably going crazy, they're not used to being in a kennel.

Clint Eastwood

You have to be realistic about where you are in life and enjoy it.

Aaron Finch

We set a realistic vision on the playoffs.

Paul Samuelson

Economics never was a dismal science. I should be a realistic science.

Jan Chipchase

Technology, we find, amplifies behaviours. If you want to be anti-social, technology allows you to be. And vice versa.

Ben Marcus

Spelling is a way to make words safe, at least for now, until another technology appears to soften attacks launched from the mouth.

Ayn Rand

Even if smog were a risk to human life, we must remember that life in nature, without technology, is wholesale death.

Ben Fountain

You have the mainstream bourgeois life of the U.S., Europe, the "developed" world - the life of technology, education, mortgages, careers, a certain level of physical comfort - while on the other hand, several billion people on the planet exist on less than a dollar a day. That's a huge and terrible reality to get your head around.

Burton Richter

In 1948 I entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, undecided between studies of chemistry and physics, but my first year convinced me that physics was more interesting to me.

Al-Waleed bin Talal

Well, clearly Apple is a role model of the American innovation whereby it produced all these products - iPod, iPhone, iPad - that are really now dominating all the technology arena in the world.

Al Gore

Our new technologies, combined with our numbers, have made us, collectively, a force of nature

Aimee Mullins

You know, I think there are certain words like 'illegitimate' that should not be used to describe a person. And certainly, we have come far enough in our technology that our language can evolve, because it has an impact.

Janet Napolitano

All images generated by imaging technology are viewed in a walled-off location not visible to the public. The officer assisting the passenger never sees the image, and the officer viewing the image never interacts with the passenger. The imaging technology that we use cannot store, export, print or transmit images.

Glenn Wilson

This is a very real and widespread phenomenon,