Compaq Quotes & Sayings

I turned Compaq from a small company with troubles into a computer powerhouse. We can do the same at Intershop. — Eckhard Pfeiffer

Oil futures were originally created to give heating oil dealers, gas retailers, aviation companies and other businesses a method of hedging against adverse price changes. Instead, they've become just another Wall Street plaything. — Gary Weiss

While traditional BI is interested in the 'what and the where,' data scientists are interested in the 'how and why'. — Amit Priyavadan Mehta

Ever since I stopped worrying about finances, I've made more money than I ever thought I'd make in my life. — Bryan Cranston

We are reinventing ourselves as a company. Compaq is taking ownership of its customer relationships and accountability of our customer's needs. — Eckhard Pfeiffer

Most of the media ... is positioning the merger with Compaq and the recent actions by Walter Hewlett and David Packard as a fight between the past and the future. — Carly Fiorina

The goal, as Compaq has stated all along in its history, is to support an open industry standard. — Eckhard Pfeiffer

Democracy is fatal for the arts; it leads only to chaos or the achievement of new and lower common denominators of quality. — Walter Legge

Worry is just imagination used in an unproductive way. — Andy Andrews

Microsoft made a big deal about Windows NT getting a C2 security rating. They were much less forthcoming with the fact that this rating only applied if the computer was not attached to a network and had no network card, and had its floppy drive epoxied shut, and was running on a Compaq 386. Solaris's C2 rating was just as silly. — Bruce Schneier

The soul gives us resilience - an essential quality since we constantly have to rebound from hardship. — Wynton Marsalis

It is probably true that almost all atheists stand for the values of reason and freethought. I will attempt to put these values in more substantial terms. There is the belief that inquiry and doubt are essential checks against deception, self deception, and error. There is the belief that logic and the scientific method is the only way the world can arrive at an agreement on the truth about anything. — Richard Carrier

Carli Fiorina says companies are consolidating because it's the only way to compete with big, corrupt government. "This is how socialism starts." Is that also why she bought Compaq when she was CEO of Hewlett-Packard? — Kevin Drum

The roots of apple were to build computers for people, not for corporations. The world doesn't need another dell or compaq. — Steve Jobs

Seeing is not believing — Eric Lindstrom

I do have a thing for eating out; that's one of life's great middle-age pleasures. — Rick Astley

This was the least she owed those murdered in Endovier and Calaculla - the least she could do, after so long. A monster to destroy monsters.
The flames on her left hand burned brighter as Celaena stepped beyond the archway and into the beckoning abyss. — Sarah J. Maas

How fast were you?" Wes asked me. I said, "Not that fast."
"You mean you couldn't ... fly?" he said, smiling at me. — Sarah Dessen

The pain gets better with time," I told her. "It always hurts, but it gets better. — Ilona Andrews

Reading was very important to me as a kid. It was very inspirational to me. I went to a school where that wasn't encouraged so much, but my parents encouraged that, and it has made me part of who I am. — Sasha Grey