I'm the know-nothing. I'm curious, I try to be entertaining, I try to translate the techno jargon, but in the end I'm the audience's representative.
People used to think that private equity was basically just a compensation scheme, but it is much more about making companies more efficient.
The world is a complicated place, and there's a lot of division between people. The performing arts tend to unify people in a way nothing else does.
Everybody likes each other until things get tough. Then you will find out what kind of team you have, and I understand that as much as anyone.
In fact, I would advise against anyone doing reality shows. I won't be doing 'X Factor' just yet.
Engineering and mixing are absolutely key. Once a song is done, for me personally, it's usually two or three days to get the mix down.
Smart drafting is a wonderful thing. A smart free-agent signing is a wonderful thing. Smart trades are a wonderful thing, and that's a function of management.
We couldn't get enough Jeremy Lin material in the NBA store fast enough. And when we did, it was just gone in minutes.
In a battery, I strive to maximize electrical potential. When mentoring, I strive to maximize human potential.
You can't play enough golf or do any of those other things that fill that kind of excitement that coaching gave me in the big games.
I didn't even know what it was when I started. But I was lucky. I found it at 16. Most people don't discover decathlon until they're 21 or 22.
Chairman Mao not only introduced Pinyin in China, but also simplified half the Chinese characters, believing that fewer strokes would enable more people to learn to write the characters.
My mother introduced me to many different things, and figure skating was one of them. I just thought that it was magical having to glide across the ice.
The way that worms and viruses spread on the Internet is not that different from the way they spread in the real world, and the way you quarantine them is not that different, either.
Saks is one of the temples of good-quality products in America. The Saks shop in New York, for me, is the most interesting department store in America.
If popular culture has taught us anything, it is that someday mankind must face and destroy the growing robot menace.
But, no, I don't think there will be any kind of problem as far as setting up to be competitive, but you've got to get it right if you want to be the first one across the line.
I always marked up a piece of paper before taking a job, looking at the pluses and minuses. If the latter outnumbered the former, I would pass.
The 50 greatest players don't matter when you're in the Hall of Fame. We all know that I was not one of the 50 greatest, I was one of the 25 greatest - in my mind.
I was an all-around player - if I was just a scorer, there's no way the Hawks would have won 50 games four years in a row.
It's always discouraging when you don't have things go your way. They are frustrated just like the rest of us.
