Mike Ferguson (Michael A. "Mike" Ferguson) Quotes
The pace of technological change in recent years has been both impressive and positive for consumers.
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I am shocked that Republicans can't explain why our technological and economic advantages are the result of sound monetary and economic policy.
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I don't know that I've ever bought anything online. I'm about 10 years behind the technological curve, I think.
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Indeed, we must foster cost-saving competition. And that means joining the marketplace of other industrialized countries - not just for the manufacturers who sell drugs, but for consumers as well.
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Every technological revolution takes about 50 years.
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I enjoyed running at that pace, I tried to just hang on to Valentino.
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As the ball comes down the pitch at such pace, it is a challenge just to keep going. But I'm working on it.
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A mediocre speech supported by all the power of delivery will be more impressive than the best speech unaccompanied by such power.
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By keeping the Internet free of discriminatory taxes, we've encouraged companies and consumers to do their business in the electronic marketplace, ... Congress originally enacted the moratorium to prevent thousands of state and local taxing jurisdictions from using the Internet as a cash cow. Rather than slow down the Internet with a slew of new taxes, we ought to extend the moratorium to allow the Web to reach its full potential.
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Just before consumers stop doing something, they do it with a vengeance.
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David Brin is a technological determinist. He thinks that we understand the trend and we need to hop on it. I don't have any such illusions.
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You don't drive an economy by consuming - the consumer is not the engine, the consumer is the caboose.
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There is simply no way to sustain an economy based on consumer credit.
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But on the road that I'm on I must continue; if I do nothing, if I don't study, if I don't keep on trying, then I'm lost, then woe betide me. That's how I see this, to keep on, keep on, that's what's needed.
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For me work is an absolute necessity, indeed I can't really drag it out, I take no more pleasure in anything than in work, that's to say, pleasure in other things stops immediately and I become melancholy if I can't get on with the work.
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A good painting should be the equivalent of a good deed.
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I always dream a painting like that, with a group of lively figures of the pals.
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You have a more interesting life if you wear impressive clothes.
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We are so conformist; nobody is thinking. We are all sucking up stuff; we have been trained to be consumers, and we are all consuming far too much.
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Amazon.com strives to be the e-commerce destination where consumers can find and discover anything they want to buy online.
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In all my books, I try to have a strong element of realism underlying the fantastic.
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Where, in all the self-righteous lying world, could she turn for a friend? She even thought angrily of her children - they were simply eating up her flesh as they had when they were at the breast, no less.
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I don't play anymore because I can't play anymore and I retired when I was playing for Chelsea because the doctor had to cut my leg in two parts so this is why I retired. I started going to the gym recently and my knee started to hurt again, so you can imagine what it would be like if I tried to play! I play football on the beach with my daughters and my friends but that's it.
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The pace of technological change in recent years has been both impressive and positive for consumers.
