Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Martin

AOL was a little light on the top line but made it up on the cost line. There were no surprises based on what we heard on Jan. 7.

Jeff Davis

AOL Time Warner -- you've just had a major shakeout. AOL was just not worth the value they paid, and this whole Internet portal media strategy has altered, but it hasn't gone away, ... But something new is happening. You have a new chief executive officer and the stock has been toxic waste in portfolios. Everybody's dumped it and you're not at a valuation level. It's very interesting.

Jason Calacanis

AOL has a great collection of brands, and the question is, 'Can they innovate and scale their business?' And those are very challenging things to do. But I think they are well positioned to grow.

Matthew Kelmon

You would think that whatever's on the screen is what a user will use, so this could help AOL grow the subscriber base.

Brad Stone

There are lots of lessons to learn from Amazon. Never stop innovating or questioning the fundamentals of your business. Disrupt yourself before others do. Continually motivate employees so that they never get too complacent - see Yahoo, AOL and many other Internet companies for evidence of what happens when they do.

Henry Blodget

Every hour that the average user spends online, AOL pays for it directly, yet the average user only pays a flat rate of $21.95 a month. So if usage continues to go up, AOL's cost continues to increase and this is something they've started to control over the last several quarters.

Ian Campbell

What next, we'll see AOL up on eBay?

Kara Swisher

With giant sites like Facebook and MySpace becoming as generic as Yahoo and AOL of old, more and more sites will be looking for an edge by drilling down deeply to serve a highly targeted audience.

David Staples

When you look at Viacom and AOL Time Warner, their cash flow being generated by their businesses has enabled them to reduce debt and to focus on their businesses.

John Meyers

There has always been a choice out there. It's a matter of taking the time to see what's available. You want to be sure it's a company that's really dedicated to insurance.

George Davis

Up until now, many of these folks, these past couple weeks, have had no choices. What we want to do is return that sense of control over their lives back to them. Many of them have expressed that they don't know what they want to do.

Charli Thorne

This team is making me look good right now. We had no choice. We had no margin of error and, honestly, because we had seen everybody. We saw what they had, and we saw what we had, and we knew we were the better team.

Andrew Benson

You felt you had no choice but to shoot her in the face?

Henri Nouwen

.....every time there are losses there are choices to be made. You choose to live your losses as passages to anger, blame, hatred, depression and resentment, or you choose to let these losses be passages to something new, something wider, and deeper

Dan Quinn

There's no crowd, and we had our choice of sites,

Jeff Cohen

The traditional textbook will always have a place on the shelf just as it has for hundreds of years. This product is about choice for students, providing them a less expensive price.

John Remes

The timing couldn't be better for KARE 11 News to take this step. Instead of waiting for more homes to purchase HD sets, our choice is to lead the transition.

John Warden

Isn't it true that any home user who wants to use Netscape's browsing software has the choice to do so at no cost?

Ren Zamora

Other companies have been able to fight pricing pressure, which is good. If all the companies started cutting prices, you don't want to go down that road.

Marc Maiffret

Companies like Microsoft are not equipped to deliver protection in a timely manner.

Guy Kawasaki

Companies in Europe should stop trying to do the U.S. version of a European idea.

Bruce Evers

Companies haven't assessed the damage fully and it may be that refineries stay shut for months. The European Union is moving crude and products to the U.S., but at some point it's going to have to replace that, leading to higher demand in a marketplace that is already very tight.

Boris Boehm

Companies are restructuring to make themselves fit for the future. Investors are looking for companies that are engaged in that process. It's a positive.

Larry Seibert

Tech companies in general are going to have a multiplier effect versus the GDP. So as long as the GDP stays relatively strong, tech earnings should be a multiplier of that. If we see the GDP slow down markedly, then we could have a real problem in technology. But we don't see that yet.

Soichiro Monji

Tech companies are still facing a tough time with drops in product prices.

Joe Cooper

Tech companies are not saying that things are recovering quickly. They are saying that things are recovering gradually. But tech stocks are not priced for slow improvement.

Mitsushige Akino

Technology stocks continue to advance, driven by expectations about their earnings. Better-than-expected results at U.S. technology companies are also prompting investors' speculation.

Jeff Green

Do you let your kid go over to a person's house you don't know? If you don't, then why are you letting them communicate with somebody on the computer that you don't know.

Dan Castellaneta

Press the any key ... hmmm where's the any key?

Brett Myroff

While the US accounted for over half of all spam sent two years ago, it is now less than a quarter. This shows that more Americans are protecting their home computers from hackers. The reality is simply that more viruses, worms and Trojan horses are being designed to take over innocent users' computers to steal information or send out spam.

Conrad Wolfram

Computers do the calculating to allow people to transform the world.

Adam Carolla

I don't know anything about computers.

Steve Wozniak

Did you really invent the computer, or am I being pranked right now?

Max Hastings

It's miraculous how much easier the computer has made my sort of work.

Bill Brennan

Near as we can tell, there's no sensitive or confidential sort of information contained on the computers that were stolen. They're your typical office computer for e-mails and the like.

Greg Nickels

We know that Seattle is mentioned frequently ... a computer was found in Afghanistan showing pictures of Seattle-area landmarks. So we are in constant contact with the FBI and with other federal authorities,

Dusty Baker

The one outing doesn't necessarily put him in there or delete him from it. He'll have quite a few more outings before we make a decision. We'll evaluate him on his progress. He said he learned from it and it won't happen again. He was upset at himself at how he pitched.

Maxine Sweet

We also delete inquiries from other employers so if you're shopping around for a job, they wouldn't be able to see that.

Larry Augustin

Linux guys give their parents Linux machines, ... They can configure them so their parents can't delete applications. They just log in and get their e-mail.

Michael White

People train for this all year like the Olympics.

Sarah Davis

People think, 'It's a winter hike, I don't have to take as much water,' but they do.

Richard M. Nixon

People see me and they think, "He's risen from the dead.

Jon Jansen

People say this stuff like they just thought of it, ... Everyone thinks they're so clever. I'm like, 'Heard that two weeks ago. Where ya been?'

John Abraham

People talk about the money, but it had nothing to do with the money,

Jay Jacobs

People stumbled into the war by making mistakes.

Tom Daschle

People still would have the right to go to court,

Jodie Sweetin

People still watch 'Full House' all the time. It's on three times a day!

Gary Koenig

People still want it, that's why the old stars are still doing it.

Booth Tarkington

Whatever does not pretend at all has style enough.

David M. Kelley

I always found that if you handle a problem in a benevolent way and a transparent way and involve other people, so it's just not your personal opinion, that people get to the other side of these difficult conversations being more enthusiastic.

T. S. Eliot

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion,

Tia Carrere

When I first met my agent, I said, If something comes up and it fits my age range and personality, I would like you to send me up for it, even if it specifies blonde or brunette.

Tim Cook

What makes Siri cool is she has a personality.

Stan Getz

I'm a recovered alcoholic. I don't do anything anymore, but those things, those things take away ... You're a different personality completely when you take those. For those who are really chemically dependent on anything, it's not you.

Steven Pinker

Personality and socialization aren't the same thing.

Serena Williams

When I'm 32? Hopefully I'll have made my mark with a few different movies, some scary ones and some comedies. I'm really funny, I have a great personality on the camera.

Sebastian Horsley

It's better to be quotable than honest, I don't speak, I quote. I am a fraud. I have cobbled together my personality from hundreds of little bits. I am simultaneously the most genuine and the most artificial person you will ever meet.

Breaux Greer

I could always throw stuff, starting with tantrums.

Creed Bratton

Ш'm not cybernaut, this stuff's so foreign to me.

Adam Brody

I wish I came from a more pure place. I don't have something to say from the bottom of my soul. I just know how to take stuff I like and repackage it in a slightly different way.

Amy Poehler

I grew up watching skating all the time in the Olympic stuff.

Conor Oberst

I'm not the most technically savvy person in the world. Like, I'm not good at troubleshooting when stuff happens to my digital music.

Andy Warhol

I'd rather do new stuff. The old stuff is better to talk about than to see. It always sounds better than it really is.

Amanda Lear

I am not interested in releasing best of stuff and I have not given my permission. You release best of packages when you're a has-been and have nothing new to offer.

Steve Buscemi

Oftentimes you'll see stuff that makes it into the mainstream that has been influenced by things that are clearly not from the mainstream.

Stone Gossard

As a songwriter, it's kind of hard to listen to your own stuff with clarity.

Brandon Marshall

I try to live by the principles the Bible speaks on.

Brad Feld

While I'm a venture capitalist who invests in early-stage tech companies, I often feel like a professional emailer and conference call maker. I try to spend most of my time doing whatever the companies we are investors in need me to do.

Jane Jacobs

It is hopeless to try to convert some borders into seams.

Janet Jackson

I've never been into what am I going to do next, trying to reinvent myself.

Miley Cyrus

I've never just been able to be alone, and I'm obsessed with being alone and hearing my thoughts. I'm trying to take this alone time — the five minutes I do have a day — to learn as much as I can.

Miley Cyrus

Maybe it's your time to lift off and fly You won't know if you never try.

Diana Wynne Jones

That's why I love spiders. 'If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try again.

Daniel Handler

If you are trying to fool a farsighted or dimwitted person, a veiled facial disguise might be enough.

Dan Stevens

"I've never see you do something like this before and I'd love to see you try." For a young actor, that's about the most exciting thing that anyone can say to you.