Jim Balsillie Quotes

#1. Some of us live a Christian life as if we're always under the stern, watchful eye of our Father and he is very impossible to please ... No, God delights even in our heartfelt attempts at obedience.

Kevin DeYoung

#2. I loved Frank," I said quietly, not looking at Bree. "I loved him a lot. But by that time, Jamie was my heart and the breath of my body.

Diana Gabaldon

#3. You have to pay a lot of attention to what's important, what's permanent, what's real.

Jim Balsillie

#4. Elijah Snow: 'Who have you pissed off this time, John?'
John Stone: 'Sumatran robot death sluts
Dammit, ONE of these buttons fires the atomic death biter

Warren Ellis

#5. There may be 300,000 apps for the iPhone and iPad, but the only app you really need is the browser. You don't need an app for the web ... You don't need to go through some kind of SDK ... You can use your web tools ... And you can publish your apps to the BlackBerry without writing any native code.

Jim Balsillie

#6. Here's the solution. We need a CO2 tax, revenue-neutral, to replace taxation on employment, which was invented by Bismarck - and some things have changed since the 19th Century.

Al Gore

#7. Imagination is the greatest nation in the world!

Bob Proctor

#8. I know I'm far from being what I should; will I ever be?

Anne Frank

#9. I don't think people buy technology products because of the personalities of the people behind them.

Jim Balsillie

#10. Roger let go; they were now on firm ground, and he did not wish any watchers to think that he was exercising any constraint over his father; and this quiet obedience to his impatient commands did more to soothe the Squire than anything else could have effected just then.

Elizabeth Gaskell

#11. In spite of all this noise, customers are still definitely buying in North America, and they're really, really buying internationally.

Jim Balsillie

#12. I refuse to confirm or deny anything about any deal to purchase an American NHL franchise and move it to Canada until I've completed all of the paperwork and the deal is closed.

Jim Balsillie

#13. it occured to her that kissing and being kissed were two different things. and being kissed by someone you've really wanted to is something else again.

Emily Franklin

#14. As nice as the Apple iPhone is, it poses a real challenge to its users. Try typing a web key on a touchscreen on an Apple iPhone, that's a real challenge. You cannot see what you type.

Jim Balsillie

#15. No other technology company other than Apple has successfully transitioned their platform. It's almost never done, and it's way harder than you realize. This transition is where tech companies go to die.

Jim Balsillie

#16. I believe profoundly that in the struggle against Communists and their organizations [...] we cannot and should not resort to the methods and forms employed by the Communists.

Victor Kravchenko

#17. I was never fearful or scared. I knew God had me and my wife and children knew it as well so we just marched.

Kwame Kilpatrick