Everything can't be a postage-stamp-sized project. Everything can't be a chamber piece. Musicals aren't even meant to be that, or identified with it... It's none of it simple.
The software industry has to become better in componentization. That's a clear focus for most of the software companies. How components look, how they are maintained, the ability to maintain them separately.
Fans don't like owners. They know they are somewhere - actually, in Germany, some owners are anonymous. Fans don't sympathize with owners, so ownership stays in the back.
In the '80s, when Gretzky came to the World Championships in the second or third game, you'd see this guy skating circles around the other ones. Unbelievable.
If one looks at the different problems of the integral calculus which arise naturally when one wishes to go deep into the different parts of physics, it is impossible not to be struck by the analogies existing.
If that enabled us to predict the succeeding situation with the same approximation, that is all we require, and we should say that the phenomenon had been predicted, that it is governed by the laws.
Absolute space, that is to say, the mark to which it would be necessary to refer the earth to know whether it really moves, has no objective existence.
Successful engineering is all about understanding how things break or fail.
We need to reflect the true identity of Muslims, how peaceful they are and really be able to talk to the Western media about the true look and heart of the Muslims.
In the 1960s, if you were a blue collar worker or uneducated, and you had an injury on the job, the company basically dismissed you.
When you're surrounded by people who share a passionate commitment around a common purpose, anything is possible.
You walk into a retail store, whatever it is, and if there's a sense of entertainment and excitement and electricity, you wanna be there.
The Starbucks customer and the Teavana customer are two very different customers, two different need states that are highly complimentary.
When we began Starbucks, what I wanted to try to do was to create a set of values, guiding principles, and culture.
Often, organizations need bold, grand gestures to galvanize people towards a new mission or refocus their attention.
Even though people are under economic pressure, they still want to support those brands with values that are compatible with their own.
Turning a culture around is very difficult to do because it's based on a series of many, many decisions, and the organization is framed by those decisions.
A criminal is a person with predatory instincts without sufficient capital to form a corporation.
Japan can't get anything on the market very cheaply because it has a large, relatively highly paid workforce which you can't fire.
In the digital world, he who hesitates is abandoned. So you have to generate 3-D excitement with as many devices as you can find.
Sometimes Hollywood is a small town on the West Coast of America at the furthest point from everywhere else, and that can make it a little provincial and insular.
