Big companies are looking closer term, and even the most technological companies spend less than 1% of sales on research. Startups have suffered the burst bubble.
However now we can create a sound that can truly startle someone and in terms of sound effects I think the environment that we are in now has improved dramatically.
Self-esteem comes from being able to define the world in your own terms and refusing to abide by the judgments of others.
In the long term, it is desirable that the human race, faced with the prospect of extinction on Earth, should prepare an escape route for itself to another inhabitable planet.
In terms of soccer, it wasn't really a thing that girls did. In England it more kind of Net Ball and Hockey and stuff like that in athletics. It's to each their own, really.
The world, in terms of choices available to educated, ambitious workers and entrepreneurs, is way bigger than just the United States, Japan and Europe.
People relate to the spirit of the band, which is to live your way and succeed on your own terms. There's no hypocrisy in being successful and still railing against conformity.
I think I needed the resilience of approaching my late 30s to come to terms with the resilience I required to learn to sing.
For me, I always have to establish a reality for the character. In very actor-y terms, you just have to understand his reality.
'Mullygrubber' is an Australian term which means something that creeps along the ground; it's like a little grub.
The journey has definitely not been easy, but all the sacrifice has paid off very well in terms of my performance on-court.
Anyone who knows anything about me knows that I am a very patriotic guy, in terms of my Scottishness and my roots.
I think so many people are reactive... they see things in a short term way they're right up against it.
I see people in terms of dialogue and I believe that people are their talk.
People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.
Bill Evans is a real serious jazz pianist who, in my book, crossed over boundaries in terms of color. He used the piano as his canvas.
Perhaps we should wait until his second term begins before carving Barack Obama's face in Mount Rushmore. Is that asking too much?
There are always things you wish you could've done better, and there are always things that you wish would've turned out a different way in terms of storyline, which you're not in charge of.
I'm an old git now, so I would say this, but television was better when there were less channels. There was more concentration and selection in terms of the output.
I really think that it's better to retire, in Uncle Earl's terms, when you still have some snap left in your garters.
Jean-Baptiste Say may have coined the term 'entrepreneur' but he totally missed the opportunity to put it on a t-shirt and sell it.
