Quotes by John Patrick

“Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.”

“The target market is for people who have not been entrenched in Web culture.”

“IBM has taken a leadership role in this area and is prepared to be a technology partner with companies around the world to take advantage of these new developments.”

“There are still a lot of cases in the world where you order something and then you see Delivery will be in 8-12 weeks. This is because of the faxes and forms that still exist.”

“Whenever there is a change of some significance, it always presents an opportunity for competitors to make inroads. When a visible leader departs for unknown reasons, that always gives customers a reason to pause and provides an opportunity for its competitors to take advantage,”

“Working with the Internet2 community, we will be building more powerful applications that will be feasible only on a backbone like Abilene, ... We hope this will lead customers into the next era of e-business as these applications migrate over to the commercial Internet.”

“Working with the Internet2 community, we will be building more powerful applications that will be feasible only on a backbone like Abilene. We hope this will lead customers into the next era of e-business as these applications migrate over to the commercial Internet.”

“I tell him I dont know.”

“I dont feel any older now than when I was 70.”

“Our goal is to be the industry leader in UNIX systems and solutions and in the process better serve customers and offer them choices in the market.”

Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.

Many dotcoms recruited people from existing companies who were quite experienced in finance, marketing, distribution and other disciplines but not necessarily experienced in the Web culture.