American Quotes

The groups that have awarded them are all a little different. It's a little hard to single out any one for that, but I think the dedication of this building would have to go toward the top of the list.

The first calculators tended to sell for $400 or $500. Today, you can get a pretty good one for 4 or $5.

Somewhere in that 20-year period, I would assume that there will be some basically new approach that will begin to cut into it, but it's got a long time.

My own interest developed because I thought it was a fascinating subject and something I wanted to pursue.

It's true that the original idea was mine, but what you see today is the work of probably tens of thousands of the world's best engineers, all concentrating on improving the product, reducing the cost, things of that sort.

It's also somewhat in the center of a number of things that will be useful to the company.

It was really a very small company when I started and it changed very rapidly during those first periods.

I'm sure there will continue to be exciting new products and major changes, but it looks as if the existing technology has a great deal of room to grow and prosper.

I'm doing a little consulting. I'm somewhat retired, still a director of a company or two.

I think the varied backgrounds in the beginning were a plus. It took a while for people to understand what they were trying to do and get started, but it did provide for a lot of new ideas.

I think it's doing very well. I'm pleased to see the concentration on semiconductors. I think this will help.

I feel my story has been exercised very thoroughly and very frequently.

How are we doing in the electronics field as opposed to, you know, we hear how advanced the Japanese are? Do you think we're still pretty competitive? Oh, yes.

Five years ago, people were crying and feeling the Japanese were about to take over the Earth. I don't hear that kind of talk anymore.

I think I thought it would be important for electronics as we knew it then, but that was a much simpler business and electronics was mostly radio and television and the first computers.

Women can really be who they are. I'm about to say the F word, feminist. Often that word has such a negative connotation.

We've all made mistakes that are similar in just trying to get by or make some money or feel good about ourselves.

I'm all over the place, and I consider myself a bit of a scrounger: 'What will I do next, so I'm not broke?'

I want to be so famous that drag queens will dress like me in parades when I'm dead.

I really detest movies like 'Indecent Proposal' and 'Pretty Woman' because they send a message to women that sleeping with a rich man is the ultimate goal and really that's such a small part of it.

I love punching the ceiling with my fists when I'm lost or I can't find a parking space.

I have to find work wherever it might be hiding.

I guess I just feel bad that I'm still going on bad dates when I should really be in a bad marriage by now.

I used to think drinking was the only way to be happy. Now I know there is no way to be happy.

I always feel like rejection is my petrol. That's what keeps me going.

To be loved is important as is having a sense of accomplishment but to love is equally important in life especially when it is combined with taking action to do something for someone else to make their life better.

Once a Bond fan, always a Bond fan.

Not only did God deliver me from the bondage of alcoholism, he also blessed my family financially because of my commitment to honor what he had done for me and for not doing what I believed could possibly be destructive to others.

It is always more fun to play a bad guy than to be yourself as you can create a character unlike your own and be someone you are not for a change.

I am actually 7 foot and and one-half inches tall. I say Seven two because it's easier. Unlike some tall skinny guys I am really 'big' weighing around 350 pounds.