Steven Fisher Quotes (7 Quotes)

Our business tends to be low volumehigh mix, and users of our products put a lot of intellectual property into their designs. Those are the companies that tend to remain onshore.

The electronics content in almost everything is increasing. The U.S. is still creating new businesses. We can still growand without its being at the expense of some other company. It's not always a zero-sum game.

I'd like to think the style is my own. Of course, I've been influenced by all the greats Rodgers and Hammerstein, Bernstein, Loesser, Lerner and Loewe, Sondheim. I guess the score is a hybrid of traditional and contemporary, though definitely not sung-through. As a composer, you always hope that you end up with something true to the genre, something built on the shoulders of all the giants that have come before youbut also fresh and original.

There are a lot of reasons this is a higher riskreward country (to invest in).

We're an ad-supported network unlike a pay channel. We have certain rules for advertising.

I entirely see this as an issue for government right now. Until the government says, 'Here are the standards, and here are the regulations,' the ... (shipping industry) is sitting still and waiting, out of fear that if you make an investment, the technology will be declared insufficient in the future.

It all began with a simple observation Fairy tales always focus on the princess and the prince. The godmother is usually a stock character, fairly one-dimensional. But what about her journey, her trials and tribulations After all, fairyhood is essentially a job, like waiting tables, or litigating. What's it really like to be a fairy day in and day out Since all fairy tales need a spell of some kind and it's all been done before, we tried to find an original approach. It occurred to us that it would be more exciting to engage the audience's imagination throughout the show by having Izzy place the spell on the kingdom and not on the princess. It makes the audience imagine horns and warts and scales of green that aren't really there.