Greg has an unparalleled track record of helping services-based technology companies grow into market leaders and we are ecstatic that, out of all of his choices, he has decided to bring his franchise to Descartes. With the successes and results our customers have achieved using our new solutions and services, together with our new field organization, Greg has a strong platform on which to help us build our future successes.
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Our customers and business partners recognize that Descartes' software-as-a-service solutions help improve delivery performance and productivity, and this is in turn prompting them to refer to us new opportunities to demonstrate our value.
We are excited to have such a seasoned executive with a history of helping businesses develop and grow join Descartes. On behalf of the board of directors and management, I welcome him to our team and look forward to seeing the impact his industry leadership in mobile asset, transportation, warehouse and event management technology has on our progress.
We are excited that our visibility solution can address an important delivery management requirement for Canon Europe. This is a great example of how Descartes' services-based business model allows companies such as Canon Europe to pilot and see the business value of our solutions before having to make significant financial commitments to use our technology.
Descartes said I think, therefore I am. Helvetius wants to say I feel, therefore I want to feel pleasantly. I prefer Hobbes who claims that in order to draw a conclusion which takes us somewhere, we must say, I feel, I think, I judge therefore, a part of organized matter like me is capable of feeling, thinking, and judging.
Descartes commanded the future from his study more than Napoleon from the throne.
It is often more convenient to possess the ashes of great men than to possess the men themselves during their lifetime. Commenting on the return of Descartes' remains to France.
I cannot forgive Descartes. In all his philosophy he would have been quite willing to dispense with God. But he had to make Him give a fillip to set the world in motion beyond this, he has no further need of God.
The biologist can push it back to the original protist, and the chemist can push it back to the crystal, but none of them touch the real question of why or how the thing began at all. The astronomer goes back untold million of years and ends in gas and emptiness, and then the mathematician sweeps the whole cosmos into unreality and leaves one with mind as the only thing of which we have any immediate apprehension. Cogito ergo sum, ergo omnia esse videntur. All this bother, and we are no further than Descartes. Have you noticed that the astronomers and mathematicians are much the most cheerful people of the lot I suppose that perpetually contemplating things on so vast a scale makes them feel either that it doesn't matter a hoot anyway, or that anything so large and elaborate must have some sense in it somewhere.
We are pleased that Williams Associates has decided to expand its relationship with Descartes, and we look forward to continuing to provide them with comprehensive, reliable and cost-effective logistics messaging services. Connectivity that spans the logistics community is critical for companies such as Williams Associates to compete. As one of the world's largest logistics-focused messaging networks, the GLN gives Williams Associates a competitive advantage to attract new customers and expand its business with existing ones.
I think, therefore Descartes exists.
CARTESIAN, adj. Relating to Descartes, author of 'Cogito ergo sum' to demonstrate the reality of human existence. The dictum might be improved 'Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum' 'I think that I think, therefore I think that I am' as close an approach.
In the index to the six hundred odd pages of Arnold Toynbee's A Study of History, abridged version, the names of Copernicus, Galileo, Descartes and Newton do not occur yet their cosmic quest destroyed the medieval vision of an immutable social order in a walled-in universe and transformed the European landscape, society, culture, habits and general outlook, as thoroughly as if a new species had arisen on this planet.
In the first place, Descartes stands for the most explicit and uncompromising dualism between mind and matter.
CARTESIAN, adj. Relating to Descartes, a famous philosopher, author of the celebrated dictum, Cogito ergo sum --whereby he was pleased to suppose he demonstrated the reality of human existence. The dictum might be improved, however, thus Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum --I think that I think, therefore I think that I am as close an approach to certainty as any philosopher has yet made.