Walter Hewlett Quotes

#1. Most of the media ... is positioning the merger with Compaq and the recent actions by Walter Hewlett and David Packard as a fight between the past and the future.

Carly Fiorina

#2. But let a man know that there are things to be known, of which he is ignorant, and it is so much carved out of his domain of universal knowledge.

Horace Mann

#3. At age twelve, when he got a summer job at Hewlett-Packard, he learned that a properly run company could spawn innovation far more than any single creative individual. I discovered that the best innovation is sometimes the company, the way you organize a company,

Walter Isaacson

#4. But governments and officials are not very good shepherds.

Rebecca Solnit

#5. When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images.

Niels Bohr

#6. Lincoln was shot by a two-bit actor who was exercising his right to bear arms.

Kurt Vonnegut

#7. Now is not the time to gut these job-creating investments in science and innovation. Now is the time to reach a level of research and development not seen since the height of the Space Race.

Barack Obama

#8. I could get into bed with James Bond, then take my false leg off and it would really be a gun.

Heather Mills

#9. Remember that all the others are more afraid than you

Isabel Allende

#10. The difference between a pessimistic and an optimistic mind is of such controlling importance in regard to every intellectual function, and especially for the conduct of life, that it is out of the question to admit that both are normal, and the great majority of mankind are naturally optimistic.

Charles Sanders Peirce

#11. I am a comic writer, which means I get to slay the dragons, and shoot the bull.

Rita Mae Brown