Richard Williams
Richard Williams
Animator who won a 1989 Academy Award for his work on the live action/animation hybrid film "Who Framed Roger Rabbit." "The Thief and the Cobbler" became his unfinished masterpiece.
ProfessionCartoonist
Date of Birth19 March 1933
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I'd like for her to be able to take the very first shot and put pressure on her opponent. I think she's attacking too much. I don't think you should do all that attacking. When you're attacking that much, no one can consistently hit the ball that hard, unless they're making a bunch of errors. So just attack the first ball.
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My father was a doctor and I was born in our home, where he had his practice,
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Now the question is 'What is the right price for the shares?'.
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This year, our line is not as big. We don't have as many players at the skill positions and we're not as deep as last year or the year before.
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To buy (Siebel) and combine them along with other smaller acquisitions into Oracle in a very short time is an unprecedented task in terms of difficulty. It's not easy by any stretch, and that is a lot of risk to try to do that in a short time with a bunch of different technologies.
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We didn't give our best effort. We started growing up tonight. With the results, it's evident. This was a critical first step.
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We see tremendous market acceptance when Microsoft's next big enterprise software product comes out. And when you look at the sheer numbers, it's arguably as big a market as the original Windows market,
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For many companies we're not talking about a lot of organic growth. If currency strengthens, as I expect it will, it brings into question whether companies can make their second-quarter numbers.
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For a variety of reasons, we believe that's unlikely,
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It's premature to be able to gauge what's really happening with corporate demand. Long-term investors need to wait and get more data before making any decisions about these stocks.
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It's not an elegant solution and it's not even clear if it's a viable solution.
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The biggest risk for IBM is not the restatement of revenues and growth, it's more the potential for a crisis of confidence.
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The bet that computer vendors are making as they build up inventory is that fourth quarter sales will see a big surge. If we don't get that it will be trouble for software, ... Everything comes down to the fourth quarter.
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The biggest lesson we've learned from this is just how serious Oracle is to find another revenue source, ... It's painfully obvious that their own business is not doing well enough that they are pursuing this with such ferocity.