Quotes by John Fowler

“I wanted to see what kind of a witness he [Reed] was going to make, what kind of appearance, and I wanted to find out what urging the state had used to have him testify. Being a felon in jail, I thought was kind of interesting.”

“San Diego has always had a champagne appetite and a beer budget,”

“During my early years, ... we tried to do everything in the least expensive way possible – our public improvements, grading. There was even an aversion to charging developers any amount of money (for public facilities). If we cant do it ourselves, we said, we shouldnt charge the developers.”

“We decided to get much more serious about the industry-standard server market.”

“Were certainly going to get there faster. It helps our time frame.”

“[Despite a Galaxy delay, Sun is chomping at the x86 bit.] We are going to bill them as the fastest, most energy-efficient and reliable x86 servers in the industry, ... We have aimed these three servers at the bulls eye in the industry-standard market.”

“The simplicity of language, the sparseness of the word on the page, the way a few words stretch my mind across big spaces - all this is here,”

“Theres a lot of back and forth on the product roadmaps. We go to AMD and say wed like the following changes in your product road map. None of these are exclusive, but they take those along with others and go to work on the product roadmap,”

“We are going to bill them as the fastest, most energy-efficient and reliable x86 servers in the industry. We have aimed these three servers at the bulls eye in the industry-standard market.”

“The simplicity of language, the sparseness of the word on the page, the way a few words stretch my mind across big spaces — all this is here.”