John Quotes

Imagine, 24 pages of superhero adventures produced by the same writer and artist every month!! How did they do it? (What? By being professional about it? But that's too much like work!)

I think Daily Kos is a really great example of where it's really worked in terms of putting the opinions of a larger group of people forward. And Kos has obviously had a huge impact on politics.

I have no interest in anybody's life that way so it defeats me why people go to that length to pry.

Online fundraising is so important to the Democratic Party.

Build on the rock before you hit rock bottom!

Go and do, don't sit and stew.

The Imagi-Nation is a little country in your head. When you're young, you go there to play. When you get older, you go there to worry.

don't do things that kill you.

Oh, seriously--how could you be miserable with twenty thingamabobs AND a snarfblat?!

Say no to parking lots!

Be prepared. *smacks chest*

If you are emotionally honest, you should mean what you say but also mean what you do.

Isaiah taught me that the Lord is very persistent with his people.

Any effect, constant, theorem or equation named after Professor X was first discovered by Professor Y , for some value of Y not equal to X.

Why speculate when you can calculate?

When somebody says to me-which they do like every 5 years- "How does it feel to be over the hill?" my response is, "I'm just heading up the mountain."

... commutative algebra is a lot like topology, only backwards.

It's better to work with a nice category containing some nasty objects, than a nasty category containing only nice objects.

The relationship between executive CEO pay, stock performance is tenuous and not easily unscrambled, just one of myriad factors that affect the price of a stock.

The returns we read about in the industry sales literature vastly diminish when we move from the theoretical world of market indexes to the real world of actually investing.

Capitalism is not a Ponzi scheme. Capitalism is a scheme of free markets.

I think we all ought to be careful about too much generalization on this issue, even as I confess to painting with a pretty broad brush myself!

A revolution in itself is not a blessing.

The Senate is indeed a deliberative body, and that quality serves the nation well. A slow-moving government helps us maintain a stable government. But slow moving is not the same as immobile.

I hate to use that term [iPad Killer] since the iPad is probably dead anyway.

Make a faster machine and people will flock to inefficient software.

If time means nothing to you, then surf the Web.

If Apple has a flaw, it's the inability of the company to crush competition using the kind of aggressive tactics that companies like Microsoft and Intel have always applied.

Nobody can deny that Apple is fashionable, and most iPhone users buy the newest so they can be fashionable. To do this right, Apple needs a new phone every quarter.

As for my prediction that this phone would be a bad idea for Apple to pursue, anything can still happen. Time is a cruel mistress.

The tablet market has only succeeded as a niche market over the years and it was hoped Apple would dream up some new paradigm to change all that. From what I've seen and heard, this won't be it.

Either the Baby Boomers are not going to have the retirement life that they expect or taxpayers are going to be hit with a tremendously huge bill. Or both.

When people's ill, they come to I, I Physics, bleeds, and sweats 'em; Sometimes they live, sometimes they die. What's that to I? I lets 'em.

Do right, and public approval will follow; either the next hour or the next century.

It will allow us to control all the communication needs of a household with one device.

I think private ownership is generally superior to public because you care about the land more and it doesnt get trashed.

There's an old saying that the government is your partner from birth, but they don't get to come to all the meetings.

The fact that equities are being sold down, despite the lowest interest rates in recent history, simply means that the market doesn't see growth ahead for -very many businesses.

The public doesnt particularly care for advertisements.

The curse of the cable industry over all these years as an operating reality is that every year the debt goes up (and) all the money generated gets reinvested, and then some.

People go farther than they thought they could when someone else thinks they can.

While we don't always get what we want, we always get what we choose.

Listen twice as much as you speak.

Momentum solves 80% of your problems.

Management is the process of assuring that the program and objectives of the organization are implemented. Leadership on the other hand has to do with casting vision and motivating people.

You must develop yourself to be successful

To really become motivated to succeed, people need to believe they can win.

Behind every great idea is someone saying "It won't work"

Faith in people is an essential quality of an influencer when working with others, yet it is a scarce commodity today.

Leaders must live by higher standards than their followers.