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    If it is warming, it's because it's happened before, cyclitic, it will happen again, regardless of what you and I do.

    You've got to be willing to forgive and say, 'God, get something good out of something bad.' And if you'll make that choice... God will do it.

    We remain concerned that Dell may push industry pricing levels lower, responding to actions by competitors, lowering everyone's operating profitability,

    The environmentalists - the self-centered bunch, the waffle-stomping, Harvard-graduating, intellectual idiots that don't understand that they're leading this country into environmental disaster.

    He had more to lose than at any time in his career. Dell bet the company that they would take (market) share and their competitors would not match it. . . . They were right. It was the boldest move they've ever done.


    Remember in 1973 the same science chatter said that the coming Ice Age is going to occur, we're going to lose millions of people. And the politicians knew how to solve it, they just didn't have the courage to solve it; they were going to put coal dust on the Arctic.

    Aspen is also collaborating with the U. S. Army and a leading defense contractor on a kit to shield the heat signature of combat helicopters to make them less vulnerable to heat-seeking missiles, ... We expect in the course of the next six months to have these kits on about 30 helicopters.

    HP and Compaq management has a conservative projection of 2.5 billion in cost savings. But every merger has failed not because the cost savings were not achieved but because the revenues collapsed,

    It is not clear to us whether the slower revenue growth is a function of weaker market demand or historically weak competition becoming more efficient. To be sure, Dell's share gains must come from other major vendors in this increasingly concentrated market.

    While Dell may be under pressure on short-term earnings guidance, we believe the company has a more attractive long-term strategy that can generate 25-percent-plus earnings growth.

    In case there is any doubt, the good old days for Sun are gone -- Sun no longer writes the rules and the competitive landscape has been leveled with IBM's Regatta about to set sail.

    If you can't eat it, can't sleep under it, can't wear it or make something from it, it's not worth anything.

    A lady came by last night and gave me a check for 1,000.

    He was probably helped early on by being a small player in a rapidly growing market. He honed his skills and management team, and whatever flaws he had, which were few, were gone by the late '90s, and he chewed up everybody in sight.

    When a natural disaster--be it a hurricane, earthquake, tornado or flood--hits a particular region or state, the rest of us can often feel disconnected because it's happening to 'them' and not 'us,' ... Buying bonds that are specifically designated for these types of disasters can help bring together Americans and create a sense of patriotism.

    If I have my way, I'm going to dissolve the Forest Service. They're in the business of harvesting trees and they're not harvesting trees, so why have them anymore?

    We're looking at staying as long as it takes this time, ... We're going down there basically to make a wage with our equipment.

    Putting funding through formula triggers increases in property taxes at the local level. Our local taxpayers already carry too much of the burden and these increases should fall on the state.

    So far, the prices are still pretty decent. Our bean yields are down 30 percent, but our corn just seems to be up to average this year.

    Does buying Earthlink pay for itself over the cost of purchasing hosting services from UUNet I don't think so,

    that's all you'll see in the winter if this project is built.

    I wrote my thesis on the benefits of war and very near got thrown out of college. But I can show you where the greatest advancement of mankind comes under stress and strain, not comfort.

    Aspen's blankets are finding their way into jackets as well. You could use two or three millimeters in a jacket and replace a significant volume of down, to have something much leaner and body-forming, ... There's also interesting work going on to perhaps address firefighter suits. The dream there is instead of 35 pounds of vulcanized rubber, you have something with more freedom and less weight so they can do their jobs.

    We're the only creature God ever created that doesn't want to adapt. We want to make it stand still. And one thing that's constant is nature is constantly changing.

    Local control is the main issue here.

    This community won't ever be the same. I will never quite be the same,

    You cannot solve the economy in this country by creating government jobs.

    When specifically asked what the Compaq customer would do if asked by HP to migrate from their current operating environment to HP-UX, the migration path planned by HP, the overwhelming response is dissatisfaction with the majority of users planning to evaluate alternative suppliers,

    hoping for a cold, cold winter.

    That's one of our biggest problems, it's always somebody else's fault instead of our own fault.

    It is very likely that all other important missions of the Coast Guard and FEMA will become secondary to the effort to combat terrorism,

    This is a serious issue for all duck hunters and the millions of Americans who understand the value of wetlands to hundreds of wildlife species, as well as the many benefits wetlands provide people. Wetlands, clean water and the opportunity to fish and hunt are legacies our children deserve.

    (It's) a place to get out of the business and the noise of the truck stop environment, come in where it's quiet, ... They can relax and just reflect, pray.

    I can't convince you to put the drink down if you're an alcoholic, you have to want to do that. I can't convince you to stop eating the cookies when you're a diabetic. You have to do that. And that takes responsibility.

    People who are subject to tolling would rather pay a little more at the pump than go through the entire process that tolling encompasses.

    I don't see any justification for the federal government owning land, other than the Statue of Liberty and maybe a few parks, maybe a few refuges. But to just own land to do nothing with it I think is a disservice to the Constitution.

    The basic hardware profit business is under attack, ... These companies are all looking for opportunities to make money outside of the box, so to speak. It's become critical for them to take advantage of the ISP market.

    There's nothing pretty about ice. Ice grows nothing. But we've got this in our minds that we've got to make everything cold.

    There are temperature comfort ranges. It's kind of a science and an art,

    You wouldn't believe the response there has been a lot of interest. The city has not aired enough of the issues for people to know what's going on. There are so many facets to gas drilling, especially as it moves into the neighborhoods.

    While we continue to be cautious on Storage Tech's ability to establish consistent and profitable growth, we continue to view (its) strategic assets as valuable and likely to attract the attention of a larger industry partnersuitor,

    Environmentalists are a socialist group of individuals that are the tool of the Democrat Party. I'm proud to say that they are my enemy. They are not Americans, never have been Americans, never will be Americans.

    There is little question that Sun is rapidly gaining market share, but there may also be evidence of a market turn-up for Internet servers at the same time as a turn down for legacy systems, ... Sun is the long-term winner in the UNIX category and we still do not see how any UNIX competitor can catch them. Sun is the best-positioned UNIX server vendor, with more than twice the UNIX server market share of any of its competitors.

    We're more than sure that when bad things happen, if we'll make the right choices, good things will come out of it,

    Management's conservative guidance might be more a function of lowering the bar to facilitate exceeding expectations rather than a change in the company's fundamental growth outlook,

    Business has always been pretty steady. We're incredibly busy right now. We've got good people who have been here a long time.

    We think this is a great strategic move, but the valuation may be questionable, ... It's a great strategic move by Sun, in that Sun is taking a stake in the emerging appliance market that could threaten their proprietary server business in the long run.

    We wonder why we have got the Freemen or the militants. We wonder why we have got unrest in this country. It is because our government, in fact, has got out of hand and out of line, with the Endangered Species Act.

    They try to get a model cast in two weeks. We try to take it to finished machining in less than two weeks. So we've got about a month turnaround from start to finish on a prototype.

    I think they ought to rework Windows so that a device instantly turns on without requiring boot-up time and can run on batteries. To me, the operating system of the future is Windows.


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