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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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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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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There is a very real risk to Oracle. All of the enterprise software companies are making a major push down market.
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I know that our decision was not based on athletics.
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I'm meant to do something good here. You watch.
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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 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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Symantec cannot grow as rapidly as it has done in the past.
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That's as good a defense as we've seen on film all season and thought we'd have problems with them, but we were one block away a few times in the first half from tying the game up.
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We see cannibalism as the only way to survive right now for the big players. There are a lot of software companies out there that can't grow.
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Crouch has the stature to lead the line, his very existence sets an unusual problem for defenders, and the combination of his spidery limbs, surprisingly delicate control and patient approach allow him to hold the ball up quite effectively
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And this is what we came up with -- a private, Christian school.