Stephen Manes quotes

“Like IBM, the company [Microsoft] seems to have been spooked by the federal antitrust action against it and became increasingly sclerotic and less inventive.”
-- Stephen Manes

Source : Source: www.usatoday.com

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“Microsoft is no longer thought of as the company where the smartest people want to work.”
-- Stephen Manes

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“You can drink pickle juice and imitate gorillas and do silly dances and sing stupid songs and wear funny hats and be as imperfect as you please and still be a good person. Good people are hard to find nowadays. And they're a lot more fun than perfect people any day of the week.”
-- Stephen Manes

Source : Stephen Manes (1998). “Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days!”, Yearling

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“Bill Gates finds people in Russia to hire them to Microsoft. That's the Russian interest in this process.”

“Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. NO is the answer.”

“Harm can come about without will or action. But will and action can avert harm.”

“I'm involved in some action scenes, so they'll train me for that. I'll be working with my acting coach to prepare for my character.”

“Action is the only reality; not only reality, but morality as well.”

Source : Abbie Hoffman (2009). “Revolution for the Hell of It: The Book That Earned Abbie Hoffman a Five-Year Prison Term at the Chicago Conspiracy Trial”, p.9, Da Capo Press

“Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile.”

“Dreams grow holy put in action; work grows fair through starry dreaming, But where each flows on unmingling, both are fruitless and in vain.”

“We can learn from IBM's successful history that you don't have to have the best product to become number one. You don't even have to have a good product.”

“I want to take IBM back to its roots.”

“The thing I have learned at IBM is that culture is everything.”