American Quotes

As far as pacing the shoot is concerned, I know when I've got it. I don't think there's any reason to take ten takes unless you need them.

A director just pushes them a little this way or that way.

But out of limitations comes creativity.

You can make more friends in a month by being interested in them than in ten years by trying to get them interested in you.

The automobile is technologically more sophisticated than the bundling board, but the human motives in their uses are sometimes the same.

If the human race wants to go to hell in a basket, technology can help it get there by jet.

The Christian is not one who has gone all the way with Christ. None of us has. The Christian is one who has found the right road.

Sometimes life has a way of putting us on our backs to force us to look up.

Remember that you are needed. There is at least one important work to be done that will not be done unless you do it.

Why should you be content with so little? Why shouldn't you reach out for something big?

When you say a situation or a person is hopeless, you are slamming the door in the face of God.

The hardest people to reach with the love of God are not the bad people. They know they are bad. They have no defense. The hardest ones to win for God are the self-righteous people.

Well, developers do want to touch a lot of customers. We have to make our platform very popular in order for them to do that. If we make their jobs easier, then they'll be more likely to stay on the Windows platform.

We're obviously going to spend a lot in marketing because we think the product sells itself.

We can and must turn this around. If you're going to kill someone just pull the trigger.

We are pushing ahead as fast as we can for all audiences, whether for the business user, the child, or the digital music enthusiast.

There is no neat distinction between operating system software and the software that runs on top of it.

If you're going to kill someone there isn't much reason to get all worked up about it and angry - you just pull the trigger. Angry discussions beforehand are a waste of time. We need to smile at Novell while we pull the trigger.

I would buy a Mac today if I was not working at Microsoft.

I continue to see good growth in the mobile space; I expect to see PCs being the core driver in the home. And I mean that for entertainment along with the work-at-home space.

I continue to see a healthy PC market, very healthy. The machines will continue to morph; you'll see smaller machines that have more capability.

Apple really has no presence in business, and we think Vista's going to have a huge presence in business. We think we're going to help the corporate IT stack save money.

The successful establishment of a buffer zone around Fort Carson will provide an example for other bases around the country as we seek to protect the training mission of the U.S. military while preserving critical habitats on our ranges.

Our men and women in our armed forces are the real heroes in this conflict.

In some ways, with the security challenges this country has faced, we have had to put in rules and regulations for business to be able to sustain their growth and create jobs.

I think back a little bit when President Bush was elected President and what kind of economy he inherited from the Clinton administration. The economy was going down. It was not doing well.

I think America is on the right track.

From the employees' standpoint, in 1935, Social Security was a big gamble. Employees would be required to participate in the program, contributing a percentage of their income for their entire adult working life.

When we get the final hardware, the performance is just going to skyrocket.

We're going to do something that's really unprecedented in the industry by launching the console in all three major markets for the same holiday. It's never been done before.