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For the last 15 years, Microsoft’s master business plan seems to have been, “Wait until somebody else has a hit. Then copy it.”
If we practiced medicine like we practice education, wed look for the liver on the right side and left side in alternate years.
Over the last twenty years, we've changed the world just enough to make it radically different, but not enough to make it work.
I’ve heard 14 year old meth addicted thai prostitutes say more prescient things than the woman that was supposedly a “professor
If you took the most ardent revolutionary, vested him in absolute power, within a year he would be worse than the Tsar himself.
My favorite [costume in collection] is the white dress Marilyn Monroe wore in the subway breeze scene in 'The Seven Year Itch.'
Our Lord was 30 years preparing for 3 years of service. The modern stamp is to spend 3 hours preparing for 30 years of service.
My younger years of modeling were really just filled with fun trips. I was doing catalogues for Alexander's and Bloomingdale's.
Some people get divorced, they leave the person for a couple of years, then they remarry. Relationships are very, very strange.
But you talk to most filmmakers and it is six, seven, eight years trying to get things off the ground. It is incredible really.
I've been married to my wife for 60 years but it feels just like yesterday, and you know what a bloody awful day yesterday was.
Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years.
If I had to go through a tunnel ten years without making any movies like Bunuel, I don't mind, as long as I did one good movie.
Hopefully I don't have to play for eight years but can go and relax somewhere and do something enjoyable while I'm still young.
The only imaginative prose writer of the slightest value who has appeared among the English-speaking races for some years past.
The nuclear industry is currently undergoing a rebirth. The uranium market will remain tight for at least the next three years.
However many years she lived, Mary always felt that 'she should never forget that first morning when her garden began to grow'.
A 17-year-old girl in Australia hacked into my e-mail while I was on it, Then a 15-year-old girl in England did the same thing.
The holy days are the best times to focus on real enthusiasm, the inner source that lightens and sanctifies our lives all year.
Your state of consciousness today is not the same as it used to be or as it will be in two weeks or a couple of years from now.
It is all a matter of time scale. An event that would be unthinkable in a hundred years may be inevitable in a hundred million.
Nothing is more disgraceful than that an old man should have nothing to show to prove that he has lived long, except his years.
In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!
Halloween: the day each year when strangers give you even more specific reasons to dislike them based on what they are wearing.
Americans are given the sole option of electing their jailer for four years and sometimes do him the honour of re-electing him.
You may spend fifty or eighty years of your life believing in something totally false, and this is what happens to most people!
I don't drink. I choose to be sober now. I have drunk over the last six years, but I just don't want to be that person anymore.
Its always been fun for me to play a variety of parts, and over the years, Ive been lucky with the things Ive been asked to do.
The wren-box problem is becoming more acute each year, for wrens now demand better housing conditions and labor-saving devices.
A thousand years of enjoying human glory is not worth even an hour spent sweetly communing with Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament.
Dummy Dum Dum was my nickname for years at school. I was the strange one of the family, the one who couldn't remember his name.
In the coldest February, as in every other month in every other year, the best thing to hold on to in this world is each other.
After watching wrestling for 20 years, I thought I had enough confidence to do it. There were no wrestling schools at the time.
Usually, about two years of work go into each illusion, whether it's big or small. Two years of work on each five-minute piece.
Last time Congress passed a major six-year transportation bill was in 1997, since then there have been 21 short-term extensions.
Most jobs today are still structured the same way they were 50 years ago, when most families had someone who could stay at home.
Every time I ask for visa, they (USA) give me visa for five years. I have never had any problem in getting a visa to any nation.
[Donald] Trump was born on June 14, 1946, less than a year after the first and, thus far, only nuclear weapons were used in war.
People will endure their tyrants for years, but they tear their deliverers to pieces if a millennium is not created immediately.
History, call it 15,000 or 25,000 years of duration, is the story of an animal, some kind of complex animal, becoming conscious.
Now, with the Internet, you're either five years ahead or you're five years behind, and the music game is catchin' up right now.
I'm a forward, but I can't be the only forward at a club. Over the years, the clubs who've won titles have had several strikers.
I have a high guilt quotient. A poem can go through as many as 50 or 60 drafts. It can take from a day to two years - or longer.
The true test of any scholar's work is not what his contemporaries say, but what happens to his work in the next 25 or 50 years.
To do anything of magnitude takes at least five years, more likely seven or eight. Rightfully or wrongfully, that's how I think.
When I was six years old, Mom and Dad gave me a guitar for my birthday, and Daddy taught me the chords to 'You Are My Sunshine.'
For years, my job was to make the movie inexpensively. And I could bring it in. What I can't control are the costs of marketing.
A three-year old was examining his testicles while taking a bath. 'Mom,' he asked,'are these my brains?' 'Not yet.' she replied.
There is no end to the promotion. There is no end to the possibilities. You can continue to promote a book for years, literally.
Around year seven or eight, you'd kill yourself when you realized Norm had to enter and you had to come up with a new beer joke.