As to 's talking telegraph, it only creates interest in scientific circles, and, as a toy it is beautiful; but ... its commercial value will be limited.
You look at a guy like Lance Armstrong, and you have to be inspired. I sat next to Kirk Douglas the other day, and he's inspiring for fighting through his stroke.
We do need different types of propulsion to get to Mars. I wrote one of the first Ph.D. theses on that in the 1960s.
We should be ready to reach out beyond our planet and beyond our solar system to find out what is really going on out there.
I had studied at Harvard and MIT astronomy and a lot about the heavens and the star system and so forth.
I believe in books. I believe more in 'cross-media' - how characters are adapting across mediums.
A wartime C.E.O. may not delegate. They make every decision based on the next product release. They may use a lot of profanity.
People say the most important thing is building a world-class team.
You can't worry about the mistakes, because you're going to make a lot of them. You've got to be thinking about your next move.
If somebody's going on your board, and you're going to be C.E.O., it will help if that person knows how to be C.E.O., who has done it before.
First of all, I think the Saudis are deeply concerned about the collapse of negotiations between the Israelis and the Palestinians and the resumption of conflict.
Europeans are familiar with terrorism and violence. We have not experienced a true conflict on our soil in a hundred years, and especially not one that involved 3,000 dead.
While we are guarding the country, we must accept being the guardian of the finest ethics. The country needs it and we must do it.
You people are telling me what you think I want to know. I want to know what is actually happening.
With the super-wealthy, I think what a lot of them want isn't things, it's experiences. Preferably ones that few people can have.
If you go back to the early days of aviation, the guys designing it built it, and then they got in it and flew it. I mean, who does that anymore?
I will embrace the first opportunity to get to California and it is altogether probable that when once there I shall never again leave it.
But my shift to the serious study of economics gradually weakened my belief in Major Douglas's A+B theorem, which was replaced in my thought by the expression MV = PT.
It would be ideal if we could have an uncontrolled flow of information. But we realized you can't do that.
TIA was being used by real users, working on real data - foreign data. Data where privacy is not an issue.
And we had our own laws. I mean, I wrote them. And we had our own customs, and traditions, and proprieties.
