Harris Miller Quotes (31 Quotes)

Our first priority is the Internet Hippocratic oath 'First, do no harm,' ... Unlike most lobbyists or industries in this town, we don't come to town with a long to-do list, but with a long don't-do list.

Students were seeing the end of the Cold War, corporate restructuring, and layoffs. To tell them that they should focus on a computer science degree rather than a business or law school degree was not an easy sell,

Tech lobbyists are already sharpening their arguments. I'm sure some states are eagerly watching what happens in Europe and may try to use the implementation as an excuse to say, Why can't we do the same thing in U.S. ... But we think the European VAT tax should be a substantial concern to anyone interested in free trade and open markets.

I'm dissatisfied, and I believe the people of Virginia are dissatisfied, with the direction this country is going. Unless we begin to focus on the real problems in Washington, the way Governor Warner has here in Virginia, we're never going to meet the challenges we face.

The U. S. government's commitment to continuing to pump out these graduates began to drop off in 1970s. The space race had been won. There was a recession in the late 1960s. The country was hurt by the oil crisis in the early 1970s. And the country had moved away from the attitude of the 1960s that you could solve the world's problems with government spending.

Now, I'm a businessman. If these people were working for me, they'd be out the door. They'd be fired right away.

The impact on our industry will be minimal. We have studiously worked to maintain a relationship with both sides of the aisle.

The people who are here are here because they are committed to making sure that we all work together for the betterment of the Commonwealth of Virginia and the United States. Frankly, I find that most of the people here have already made up their minds. Most of the people here are pretty politically involved one way or another and they already have got their commitments. I am not sure that I will convince a lot of voters today.

The shortage of IT workers has changed the nature of the position of HR (human resources) director, for one, because employee retention has become almost an overwhelming issue, ... Companies might have seen a 10-to-12 percent turnover rate a few years ago, if lucky -- the turnover rate is now more like 20 percent plus. People are stealing employees from one another left and right, and employee loyalty, frankly, runs only as deep as what the company can offer.

It is because the US government has had the lightest possible touch on the internet...that we support the idea that we do not need another international body,

Companies worry that if information sharing with the government really becomes a two-way street, FOIA requests for information they have provided to an agency could prove embarrassing or costly,

They are going to be much more effective using their information technology going forward.

We have to get our fiscal house in order in Washington.

What I see is a stable of salivating legal factories gearing up. Is it prudent or responsible for Congress to wait for the inevitable flood or do what it can to provide sandbags now

If they want to come out, that's fine. It doesn't bother me. This is a campaign, and we have different points of view. Clearly Mr. Webb has been a Republican all his life, so he has a different view of the world than I do.

It was designed to be an open, borderless medium for communication and sharing information, and was not programmed with security features. Nor was it intended for commercial use,

If this ruling stands it could effectively destroy the ability of companies to set up businesses for which they contract out workers.

Looking to George Allen and George Bush to solve the gas crisis is like asking Bonnie and Clyde to solve the crime problem.

By driving down the costs associated with computer software and services and by opening more overseas markets to US competition, global sourcing sharpens our country's competitive edge at home and abroad. The result is more American jobs, higher wages and a faster growing economy overall.

In the late 1950s, in line with the space race and the Cold War, the government put a tremendous emphasis on funding engineers and computer people. The country had a massive focus on subsidizing students, supporting government labs, and supporting colleges and universities. So there was a huge growth spurt in the talent pool in the 1960s as colleges and universities pumped out large numbers of technically trained people.

I estimate it will take five to 15 years for the IT labor supply in this country to adjust, ... As other countries catch up to our level of IT, we will constantly be facing the same staffing challenges.

It's an unfortunate choice of words.

If you know you can write something off faster, you make more sensible business decisions about technology investments, ... One hopes that in that decision making there is investment in security upgrades.

This country is bankrupt. If it weren't for investors from China and Japan, our biggest competitors, buying our debt each week, the U.S. couldn't even pay its bills. We have to make this a priority. We have to get this country back on a business-like, sound financial footing as soon as possible.

It's like we've been presented with four fancy sports cars we'd all love to own. But now it's not clear which one to pick.

We're in a changing situation where companies will realize they need to accept people who don't have a 4.0 in computer science from MIT.

If George Allen is bored with that job, then he should get out of the way. Maybe if George Allen spent less time traveling the country looking for a new job, he'd be better at the job he's got.

Many companies are reporting annual turnover percentages in the high teens to the low 20s. You might expect that in the fast-food business, but not for people making salaries north of 60,000,

People think just the labor is cheaper, but if this were true, the jobs would be going to Bangladesh. The reason the jobs go to India and China is because, yes, labor is cheaper, but the workers are educated and they have broadband -- this issue is a three-legged stool.

We need a senator who will ask the right questions in the run-up to any conflict and not simply serve as a partisan cheerleader for whoever happens to be sitting in the White House.

Any suggestion that information technology is yesterday's news, doesn't matter, or has lost its edge as an economic driver is just plain wrong. In fact, major trends indicate the opposite is true.