American Quotes

I come back to the same thing: We've got the greatest pipeline in the company's history in the next 12 months, and we've had the most amazing financial results possible over the last five years, and we're predicting being back at double-digit revenue growth in fiscal year '06.

Great companies have high cultures of accountability, it comes with this culture of criticism I was talking about before, and I think our culture is strong on that.

Google's not a real company. It's a house of cards.

Certainly, we continue to bring in new people. We'll hire, net new, over 4,000 people this year, and attract great people into the company. I'm very bullish about the employee base and what it can accomplish.

And then you take a look at Spaces, there is this great innovation that came out of nowhere. We have the number one blogging site in the world because of the innovation that's there.

All companies of any size have to continue to push to make sure you get the right leaders, the right team, the right people to be fast acting, and fast moving in the marketplace. We've got great leaders, and we continue to attract and promote great new leaders.

Accessible design is good design.

Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches.

I think it would be absolutely reckless and irresponsible for anyone to try and break up Microsoft.

I don't know what a monopoly is until somebody tells me.

The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn't think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential.

My children - in many dimensions they're as poorly behaved as many other children, but at least on this dimension I've got my kids brainwashed: You don't use Google, and you don't use an iPod.

Great companies in the way they work, start with great leaders.

The body is sort of a pain. It has to go to the bathroom. It has to be comfortable. But the spirit is indestructible. It can move at the speed of light.

So, you know, I think the age of exploration is just beginning, not ending, on our planet.

My family came in 1635 from England and settled in Williamsburg. Shortly after, they split up; half went to New England and half stayed in Virginia. I'm a Virginian Ballard.

It's not a huge surprise that there are habitations at the bottom of the Black Sea.

If you compare NASA's annual budget to explore the heavens, that one year budget would fund NOAA's budget to explore the oceans for 1,600 years.

I would have to say my favorite place on Earth is Bora Bora.

I prefer sayings over jokes.

I mean, there is amazing amount of oil and gas and other resources out beneath the sea. It's staggering.

I mean, technology is amoral. It has no morality.

I love all of the Earth.

I can't travel without Sudoku.

I believe in just enriching the economy. And we're leaving so much on the table, 72 percent of the planet.

I am really dedicated to understanding the planet/creature on which we live and know that means I must go beneath the sea to see 72 percent of what is going on.

I am an underwater explorer, not a treasure hunter.

I am a geologist.

Forever may it remain that way. And may God bless these now-found souls.

Follow your own passion - not your parents', not your teachers' - yours.