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While the operating results are disappointing, we made significant progress toward executing our strategic plans during the quarter,

While the operating results are disappointing, we made significant progress toward executing our strategic plans during the quarter,

People have said that NeXT is 5 to 7 years ahead of the competition... Candidly, we made the same assessment. read more

People have said that NeXT is 5 to 7 years ahead of the competition... Candidly, we made the same assessment. That's why I made the acquisition.

The hardest part of this job is that you have to be more than a manager. You have to be read more

The hardest part of this job is that you have to be more than a manager. You have to be a rock star. And I'm not that good a rock star.

The key is growth margins went in the right direction, unit volume increased quarter on quarter, and expenses came down. read more

The key is growth margins went in the right direction, unit volume increased quarter on quarter, and expenses came down. We threw off over $300 million in cash. All of those were in the right direction. So I think we're on our way.

While the operating results are disappointing, we made significant progress toward executing our strategic plans during the quarter.

While the operating results are disappointing, we made significant progress toward executing our strategic plans during the quarter.

We ''need'' cancer because, by the very fact of its insurability, it makes all other diseases, however virulent, not cancer.

We ''need'' cancer because, by the very fact of its insurability, it makes all other diseases, however virulent, not cancer.

The earth is mankind's ultimate haven, our blessed terra firma. When it trembles and gives way beneath our feet, it's read more

The earth is mankind's ultimate haven, our blessed terra firma. When it trembles and gives way beneath our feet, it's as though one of God's checks has bounced.

In New York -- whose subway trains in particular have been ''tattooed'' with an energy to put our own rude read more

In New York -- whose subway trains in particular have been ''tattooed'' with an energy to put our own rude practitioners to shame -- not an inch of free space is spared except that of advertisements . Even the most chronically dispossessed appear prepared to endorse the legitimacy of the ''haves.''

Postmodernism is, almost by definition, a transitional cusp of social, cultural, economic and ideological history when modernism's high-minded principles and read more

Postmodernism is, almost by definition, a transitional cusp of social, cultural, economic and ideological history when modernism's high-minded principles and preoccupations have ceased to function, but before they have been replaced with a totally new system of values. It represents a moment of suspension before the batteries are recharged for the new millennium, an acknowledgment that preceding the future is a strange and hybrid interregnum that might be called the last gasp of the past.

I was the one who was helping him out. But I guess he heard from somebody that I told Coach read more

I was the one who was helping him out. But I guess he heard from somebody that I told Coach not to play him in Game 3. It wasn't like that.