Scott McNealy Quotes

Putting Windows 3.11 on top of DOS is like putting whipped cream on a road apple horse poop.

Scott McNealy

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• Every trick is an old one, but with a change of players, a change of dress, it comes out as new as before.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Change
  • Old
  • Dress

• When you're in a band, it's like everyone's the CEO, and anyone could destroy it at any moment.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Band
  • Moment
  • Everyone

• I started at the age of 8 and have been lucky to be still working.

  

  Mackenzie Astin
  • Age
  • Working
  • Lucky

• The pressure to compete, the fear somebody else will make the splash first, creates a frenzied environment in which a blizzard of information is presented and serious questions may not be raised.

  

  Carl Bernstein
  • May
  • Fear
  • Environment

• I definitely used to write a lot at school. Comic poetry and drawings about people.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • People
  • School
  • Poetry

• I did a reality TV show in London called 'I'd Do Anything,' and when I got put in the program, they said, 'What is your ultimate dream?' and I said, 'Broadway.'

  

  Rachel Tucker
  • Dream
  • Reality
  • London

• Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Society
  • Party
  • Unique

• I was pretty happy with how my career had gone, mainly because of the enormous freedom I've had to write what I've wanted to write. I had a very clear picture of who I was as a writer.

  

  Karen Joy Fowler
  • Happy
  • Pretty
  • Career

• America is a knowledge-based society, where information counts as much as material resources. Therefore those with the power to define what qualifies as knowledge - to determine what are the accepted facts - wield the greatest social and political power.

  

  Nancy Pearcey
  • Power
  • America
  • Society

• It is when I am working that the real me comes out - that is when I am the most real and honest.

  

  Laetitia Casta
  • Real
  • Working
  • Honest

• The secret is to cook the aubergines the day before and let them dry of all the oil they drank in cooking. When you cook aubergine, they eat a lot of oil. It can be very heavy.

  

  Nana Mouskouri
  • Day
  • Cooking
  • Oil

• Chances are if I am the one to cosign people, they will become a big part of the industry.

  

  Fat Joe
  • People
  • Industry
  • Cosign

• They say that women dress for other women, but I don't think that's entirely true. If we want to look flossy out-and-about on a Friday night, we're dressing for the boys - and it's nice when they notice.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Women
  • True
  • Night

• Legal behavior is not incompatible with rational, self-interested behavior.

  

  Leonid Hurwicz
  • Behavior
  • Rational
  • Self-interested

• My most serious character flaw is that I don't deny myself much.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Character
  • Serious
  • Flaws

• You know, it's no accident that the great painters came from areas like Europe where there is a lot of clouds and rain, which begets color and subtle washes of tone. Most great graphic artists come from areas with prevalent sun, where line and shadow are paramount.

  

  Al Hirschfeld
  • Great
  • Artist
  • Color

• My wife jokes that any time I want to take a picture of her, it has nothing to do with her - it's just because the light is really nice. She's usually right. I definitely am somebody who notices the way the light skips off the floor.

  

  Rachel Morrison
  • Time
  • She
  • Want

• The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Road
  • Hell
  • Milestones

• The Disney deal for us, we are very excited to be their Pay 1 partner, where we are a big licensing partner of Disney all over the world in all different windows.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • World
  • Different
  • Partner

• I constantly write about my safety walking to and from school, and then I would come home at night, and I would cut on the TV, and I would watch a show like 'The Wonder Years,' or I would watch, you know, some other show like 'Family Ties.'

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Family
  • School
  • Home

• Having an animal that you fix, knowing that you saved its life or you saved a pet - Like on a dog, these little kids will come, and their dog is just ready to die, and you do something, and they leave happy. The kids are happy, and the little puppy is licking your hand. Those are kind of neat feelings.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Happy

• I would be honored if someone reads my books and it inspires them to write their own work.

  

  Alexandra Bracken
  • Work

• Putting Windows 3.11 on top of DOS is like putting whipped cream on a road apple horse poop.

  

  Scott McNealy
  • Apple
  • Windows
  • Whipped Cream