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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This could totally backfire. Virus writers are very much driven by the same motivation that makes people climb mountains. To put a bounty on their heads will just increase their notoriety and increase their ego.
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Normally, big viruses are good news for the anti-virus companies. The scarier, the better, since that's what motivates people to buy patches in the first place.
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People power saves PeopleSoft. Customer loyalty is such a powerful force and it was underestimated,
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We're from the ghetto. Venus is a ghetto Cinderella. People from the ghetto don't get nervous.
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We want them to have a real-world experience, which means working with people from other schools and cultures, which gives them an experience of diversity. Some students never would have considered a career in international business and exportation without this kind of exposure.
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This strikes me as a trial balloon, ... Management may be getting tired of the harping on the dividend so if they give investors a quarter of the cash to shut people up, then the company can get back to business.
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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.
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The average retail investor can't be as nimble as institutions. If you buy right now, you might be sitting on a loss for months.
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