"There are always more smart people outside your company than within it."

--

Source : An e-mail to John Hagel III and John Seely Brown, September 28, 2004.

Bill Joy

#Smart Quotes #People Quotes #Smart People Quotes

“But there are a couple of places where it is clear to me that there should be no ambiguity of corporate responsibility - the environment and civil rights, .. As a corporation, you cannot let the desire for unanimity override your obligation for fairness.”
“When the suffering of another creature causes you to feel pain, do not submit to the initial desire to flee from the suffering one, but on the contrary, come closer, as close as you can to her who suffers, and try to help her.”
“I think it's something that needs to be said - that there are interracial marriages out there, and the couples live happy lives, and there's nothing wrong with it.”
“The Heavens are as deep as our aspirations are high.”
“If nothing happened, if nothing changed, time would stop. For time is nothing but change. It is change we see occurring all around us, not time. In fact, time doesn't exist.”
“You fail all the time, but you aren't a failure until you start blaming someone else.”
“An oil crisis looms, prices are spiking - and our president is extolling algae. After Solyndra, Keystone and promises of seaweed in their gas tanks, Americans sense a president so ideologically antipathetic to fossil fuels - which we possess in staggering abundance - that he is utterly unserious about the real world of oil in which the rest of us live.”
“The movie business was changing, I didn't want to turn 60 in the job. I picked 60 as an age where you are young enough to have a new life but not so young you can wait. And I had this incredible need: I had been so blessed in life and I wanted to give back. So I left Paramount with great joy, I have to say, and with great fondness for the memories I have in the movie business.”

Source : Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

You may also like:

Andy Bechtolsheim
Electrical engineer
Dennis Ritchie
Computer Scientist
Edward Zander
Executive
Guy Steele
Computer Scientist
James Gosling
Computer Scientist
Ken Thompson
Computer Designer
Ray Kurzweil
Author
Scott McNealy
Businessman
Vinod Khosla
Businessman