Richard Williams
Richard Williams
Animator who won a 1989 Academy Award for his work on the live action/animation hybrid film "Who Framed Roger Rabbit." "The Thief and the Cobbler" became his unfinished masterpiece.
ProfessionCartoonist
Date of Birth19 March 1933
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Microsoft is the dominant player if it chooses to be which would mean there would be significant market share losses for Symantec.
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That's as good a defense as we've seen on film all season and thought we'd have problems with them, but we were one block away a few times in the first half from tying the game up.
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For many companies we're not talking about a lot of organic growth. If currency strengthens, as I expect it will, it brings into question whether companies can make their second-quarter numbers.
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If everything works out, I want to graduate in three years, ... Then in the fourth year, I'll go to graduate school.
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To buy (Siebel) and combine them along with other smaller acquisitions into Oracle in a very short time is an unprecedented task in terms of difficulty. It's not easy by any stretch, and that is a lot of risk to try to do that in a short time with a bunch of different technologies.
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This strikes me as a trial balloon, ... Management may be getting tired of the harping on the dividend so if they give investors a quarter of the cash to shut people up, then the company can get back to business.
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Where the heck is the good news?. So far, there have not been concrete signs of a recovery.
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This program is a blessing. If I didn't have this program, I would probably be dead by now. When I got here, I was slowly dying. They provided me with a doctor, and everything turned around.
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We're from the ghetto. Venus is a ghetto Cinderella. People from the ghetto don't get nervous.
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With Microsoft taking the bottom out of the market's pricing structure, we are going to see that business slow down even more precipitously.
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There is a huge disconnect between the magnitude of what is likely to happen with earnings and what stocks have already discounted,
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The reality is that an Oracle deal would cost PeopleSoft customers. They have a vested interest in keeping PeopleSoft independent,
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The problem is the lawsuit is holding them up from answering the competitive threat.
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The fact that the EU is showing its teeth is very significant. Microsoft kind of got away with things in the U.S.