It's not all that important that you be able to originate brilliant ideas... The more important talent is to be able to recognize good ideas from other people.
I never wanted to be on any billionaires list. I never define myself by net worth. I always try to define myself by my values.
We need to put ourselves in the shoes of our customers. That is my new battle cry. Live and breathe Starbucks the way our customers do.
I could've just walked away but I never could have forgiven myself to allow Starbucks to drift into mediocrity or not be relevant. I just couldn't be a bystander.
We have a big opportunity in China. We think the number of stores here can rival the number in North America.
I do feel, in a sense, the rules of engagement for citizenship has changed, and we must encourage other people to speak up and to take action.
Beverages have to be created. And they're created by looking at what trend is in, say, the fashion industry - what color's hot right now.
Europe has always represented a major strategic opportunity to achieve our goal of creating and building an enduring global brand.
The only thing standing between you and your goal is the bullshit story you keep telling yourself as to why you can't achieve it.
When you live your life by poor standards, you inflict damage on everyone who crosses your path, especially those you love.
In the end, perhaps it will be the true romantics, not the nerds, who choose to flee from a world of impersonal, digitized relationships and into the arms of simulacrums with manners imported from simpler times.
You want to know what a robot's designed for. And if it's doing something outside the scope of what it's made to do, you should be very suspicious.
For people who have been raised on text-based interactions, just speaking on the telephone can be high bandwidth to the point of anxiety.
If you look back on all the teachers that you liked, I am sure you will find they were very entertaining.
I built RPM Italian, a restaurant I frequent as much as I can, because that is what people from Chicago do. They build things.
Defining OO as based on the use of class hierarchies and virtual functions is also practical in that it provides some guidance as to where OO is likely to be successful.
People who passionately want to believe that the world is basically simple react to this with a fury that goes beyond what I consider appropriate for discussing a programming language.
There was a project at Lawrence Livermore National Labs where many years ago they went down this path for scripting and controlling very large numerical calculations.
Mark Hammond is working in this area, with Windows Scripting Host. It is definitely an area where Python fits almost perfectly. That's quite independent from Java, actually.
Crop insurance should be a policy that keeps people from going broke, to make sure they can farm next year, but not to make them rich.
A lot of crops depend on labor, but they're done by farmers that don't communicate with one another. They're never in the same room together.
