Quotes by John Olson

“It feels like the only things left in south Louisiana are snakes and alligators. Houston is positioned for a boom.”

“[In an all-too-common scenario, Gtess was making do with manual intervention between silos of automation.] People were checking batches and moving things into the next step in the process, ... With BPM, weve added intelligence and automation from beginning to end, so instead of monitoring and moving work around all the way through the process, our analysts are now just managing the queues.”

“The thing I like is there?s as much bad criticism as there is good,”

“We thought, ?O.K., we?ll just have Nate [Young] come on after the U.I. set and jam with us, ... We just decided, ?this is retarded? ? we?ll put it under one umbrella just for the convenience of it.”

“A drug addict in Detroit knocked on my door one night because he knew I collected records, and he sold me a two-piece Presto cutter from the ?50s. At 4 a.m.”

“We view ourselves as folk artists first and foremost. The reason I play a one-string bass is to reference the old one-string washboard players ? the way we?re playing and our aesthetic is the same as theirs. It?s just the way we feel.”

“Were shooting to begin surfacing in May 2006, ... Most construction should be complete by the end of 2006.”

“Ive seen some of those cases tried from time to time, and they take many months -- often years -- to investigate.”

“They could, I suppose, put in some mandatory penalties that would up the ante. But increasing penalties does not necessarily increase prosecutions. It may make them harder -- tougher penalties could make judges more cautious and raise more grounds for appeal.”

“My whole business has been subjected to a meltdown,”