We are reinventing ourselves as a company. Compaq is taking ownership of its customer relationships and accountability of our customer's needs.

Retire? I will never retire.

Sometimes it's more difficult to achieve a 10% cost reduction than it is to tell people they have to achieve 50%. Small incremental steps block your view of doing something fundamentally different.

I see Intershop as a leader in the E-commerce digital economy and believe the company has truly long-term potential.

I turned Compaq from a small company with troubles into a computer powerhouse. We can do the same at Intershop.

The goal, as Compaq has stated all along in its history, is to support an open industry standard.

I am a very thorough person.

I think the PC will continue to be around for a long, long time to come. We see a new range of products evolving around the PC, but it's not going away.

It's not how great the ideas are. It's about how you write them, to make them great.

I see again my schoolroom in Vyra, the blue roses of the wallpaper, the open window.… Everything is as it should be, nothing will ever change, nobody will ever die.

The holiness of the gospel softens the hardness of the heart.

Become disinterested in your pain and suffering. Only then can you make space for your longstanding joy.

Success takes the courage to know who you really are and be comfortable with that.

We are given an autonomy and the real autonomy... and God would much rather we went freely to hell than compel us to go to heaven.

His writings have made me his friend.

Anybody who has had experience of poetesses knows that they may forgive a punch on the jaw, but never a suggestion that they would be wiser to give up versifying.

A signal is comprehended if it serves to make us notice the object or situation it bespeaks. A symbol is understood when we conceive the idea it presents.

I don't want to deal with big, grand themes in my stories; art has nothing to do with themes. When you deal with themes, you are not creating; you are lecturing.