- "Microsoft is a big intellectual roach motel. All the big minds go in, and they don’t come out."
-Paul Saffo Institute for the Future - "Technology isn’t a silver bullet. The innovation that is going to be most important is what I call innovation around fundamental capabilities and fundamental fabrics-the kinds of innovation that weave systems and networks together."
-Carly Fiorina, Hewlett-Packard - "The tech companies that succeed will be those that have developed skills at listening and a sophisticated understanding of their customers industries." (Business Week, August 2003)
-Sam Palmisano, IBM - "In the 1990’s the race was run by constantly driving over 200 mph. Anyone who tapped the brakes was left behind. Today. It’s more like the Tour de France. There’s times when you’re sprinting, there’s time you’re in huge turns, there’s time when you are going uphill."
-John Chambers, Cisco - "Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all."
-John F. Kennedy - "Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive our knowledge."
-Daniel Boorstin - "It is said that one machine can do the work of 50 ordinary men. No Machine, however, can do the work of one extraordinary man."
-Tehyi Hsieh - "In contrast to virtually all other industries, payment for medical services bears almost no relation to the quality of services provided."
-David M. Cutler Ph.D, Professor of Economics, Harvard University - "Gentleman of the jury, there are three kind of liars: the common liar, the damned liar and the scientific expert."
-Harvard Law Review (1897) - "An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity; a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity."
-Winston Churchill - "If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change."
-Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa - "We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as unsolvable problems."
-John W. Gardner
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