Bob Sutton Quotes

When Chuck House wanted to develop the oscilloscope for HP, David Packard told him to abandon the project. Chuck went on "vacation" and came back with $2 million in orders. Packard later gave him an award inscribed with an accolade for "extraordinary contempt and defiance beyond the normal call of engineering."

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• At every turn, small businesses should be encouraged to compete. When they do, we all win.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Small
  • Win
  • Turn

• We've seen over time that countries that have the best economic growth are those that have good governance, and good governance comes from freedom of communication. It comes from ending corruption. It comes from a populace that can go online and say, 'This politician is corrupt, this administrator, or this public official is corrupt.'

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Time
  • Good
  • Freedom

• A woman is never sexier than when she is comfortable in her clothes.

  

  Vera Wang
  • She
  • Woman
  • Never

• It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Man
  • Health
  • Care

• Toleration is the best religion.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Best
  • Religion
  • Toleration

• The media is controlled.

  

  Laura Harrier
  • Media
  • Controlled

• When there's justice and change, you start to see the cleansing of the soul, and that is what I want for people, and I hope it's okay for me to say those things.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Hope
  • Soul

• I equally love both, classic rock and hip-hop. I love all music, really, and I really use classic rock a lot. I'm heavily influenced by that melodically in my music. I can't really separate the two.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Music
  • Rock
  • Classic

• Power should not be concentrated in the hands of so few, and powerlessness in the hands of so many.

  

  Maggie Kuhn
  • Power
  • Hands
  • Few

• Leaving things behind and starting again is a way of coping with difficulties. I learnt very early in my life that I was able to leave a place and still remain myself.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Life
  • Myself
  • My Life

• Let me back up a little and tell you why I prefer writing to real life: You can rewrite. A novel, for example, can be cleaned up, altered, trimmed, improved. Life, on the other hand, is one big messy rough draft.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Novel

• I want to make people cry even when they don't understand my words.

  

  Edith Piaf
  • People
  • Want
  • Words

• Palestine is the cement that holds the Arab world together, or it is the explosive that blows it apart.

  

  Yasser Arafat
  • World
  • Together
  • Palestine

• There are moments when you feel that the desire to work is fading, and the only way to bring it back is to get away from it, to put yourself in a state of frustration so you feel the need again.

  

  Emmanuelle Beart
  • Work
  • Desire
  • Moments

• I didn't do the 'Home And Away' thing.

  

  Alycia Debnam-Carey
  • Home

• Americans must step back and realize that an effective foreign policy is very difficult to devise, and we must present a united front to make it work.

  

  Pete Hoekstra
  • Work
  • Present

• But, if you don't like your current Rx coverage or don't have any coverage to begin with, you'll now have the choice to add this new affordable option to your current Medicare plan.

  

  Dennis Hastert
  • Option

• I'm not a big fan of identity politics and sort of picking one thing and defining yourself with it.

  

  Andrej Pejic
  • Identity

• It is pure mythology that women cannot perform as well as men in science, engineering and mathematics. In my experience, the opposite is true: Women are often more adept and patient at untangling complex problems, multitasking, seeing the possibilities in new solutions and winning team support for collaborative action.

  

  Weili Dai
  • Men
  • Women
  • Experience

• A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering.

  

  Freeman Dyson
  • Good
  • Design
  • Engineering

• Biological engineering is not necessarily understanding systems but rather, I want to be able to design and build biological systems to perform particular applications.

  

  Drew Endy
  • Understanding
  • Design
  • Engineering

• I don't know what in the hell's going on with cranberries, but they're getting in all the other juices. Whoever the salesman is for cranberries is doing a great job. He's showing up everywhere. Hey, what do you got, some apples? Put some cranberries in there. We'll call it cran-apple and go 50-50. What do you got grapes? How about cran-grape. What do you got mangos? Cran-mango. What do you got pork chops? Cran-chops. Why don't you back off, cran-man. Why don't you take your sales trophy and have a vacation.

  

  Brian Regan
  • Hell
  • Vacation
  • Apples

• When Chuck House wanted to develop the oscilloscope for HP, David Packard told him to abandon the project. Chuck went on "vacation" and came back with $2 million in orders. Packard later gave him an award inscribed with an accolade for "extraordinary contempt and defiance beyond the normal call of engineering."

  

  Bob Sutton
  • Engineering
  • Vacation
  • Project