I like to not be too involved in the beginning and during the process so as to keep this fresh look and be able to give constructive recommendation on the final production.
San Franciscans know we live in the most beautiful city in the world, a jewel on the edge of the Golden Gate.
I've been head of strategy at IBM and together with my colleagues built our five-year plan. My priorities are going to be to continue to execute on that.
Clients say, 'What's your strategy,' and I say, 'Ask me what I believe first.' That's a far more enduring answer.
You make the right decision for the long run. You manage for the long run, and you continue to move to higher value. That's what I think my job is.
The principles upon which a safety lamp might be constructed I stated to several persons long before Sir Humphrey Davy came into this part of the country.
I came from Winnipeg and a small-town background, and I wouldn't say a depressed area, but Winnipeg has never been a rich area like Toronto.
The idea that we can make all things safe for all behaviors is in itself a dangerous and slippery slope.
We fixed on No. 4, Queen Street Place, for our City offices, and it was from there that so many of my patented inventions were dated.
When two elements combine and form more than one compound, the masses of one element that react with a fixed mass of the other are in the ratio of small whole numbers.
I always have to dream up there against the stars. If I don't dream I will make it, I won't even get close.
If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
I try to make myself happy, no, because I know that if I'm not happy, my colleagues are not happy and my shareholders are not happy and my customers are not happy.
When my son was born, I decided I wasn't really into working 12 hours a day. That slowed me down a little bit.
If you can't be persuasive to get people to believe your crazy idea, you can just go ahead and build it.
I'm not an extreme tree-hugger. I do believe trees grow and are a useful agricultural product that can be harvested without damaging the ecology and wildlife.
I think private ownership is generally superior to public because you care about the land more and it doesn't get trashed.
With regard to what is designed really well, I think people are the best-designed objects in the world. Seriously.
I have a confession: I'm not a man of simplicity. I spent my entire early career making complex stuff. Lots of complex stuff.
If operating in a network environment, do not place public domain or shareware programs in a common file-server directory that could be accessible to any other PC on the network.
Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do what I want to do.
