A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on. [Attributed]
LOUIS B. MAYER Be smart, but never show it.
LOUIS B. MAYER If when a businessman speaks of minority employment, or air pollution, or poverty, he speaks in the ...
LOUIS B. LUNDBORG How does nature amplify the intelligence of groups? It forms swarms.
LOUIS B. ROSENBERG The reason that fish form schools, birds form flocks, and bees form swarms is that they are smarter ...
LOUIS B. ROSENBERG Nature creates natural swarms. UNU uses networking technology and algorithms to take advantage of th...
LOUIS B. ROSENBERG There is a lot of work out there to take people out of the loop in things like medical diagnosis. Bu...
LOUIS B. ROSENBERG In computers, we do all kinds of manual manipulations. We grab and drag icons. We click on and open ...
LOUIS B. ROSENBERG Swarms are one very simple way of keeping ourselves ahead of the machines.
LOUIS B. ROSENBERG High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just ...
JOHN MAYER They say stay in the lines, but there's always something better on the other side.
JOHN MAYER Life is like a box of crayons. Most people are the 8-color boxes, but what you're really looking...
JOHN MAYER I look upon myself as a musical bricklayer with architectural aspirations.
ROBERT MAYER Torture is illegal, both in the U.S. and abroad. So - and that is true for the Bush administration a...
JANE MAYER I think that burnout happens because of resentment. That notion that, 'Wow, I worked 100 hours l...
MARISSA MAYER Breakfast is the most important meal of the day and I definitely have a hearty breakfast before I do...
MAYER HAWTHORNE Robert believes in our system of justice, and he looks forward to his day in court. He's confident t...
ALLAN MAYER This is not the first time Carey has made ridiculous accusations against his brother. We're not goin...
ALLAN MAYER The movie star is past its peak in terms of its power. Which is not to say it's not very powerful, b...
ALLAN MAYER The entertainment media is changing. The currency a movie star had was the ability to put people in ...
ALLAN MAYER There was a fair amount of misinformation circulated by the media, and Jason Catlett was part of it....
ALLAN MAYER To be fair, he has a personal history of charitable works like this, so it's not as if this is some ...
ALLAN MAYER We can, however, confirm that no one is suggesting the tape depicts anything but the activities of c...
ALLAN MAYER We have heard second-hand reports that the tape allegedly shows consenting adults, including someone...
ALLAN MAYER The conventional wisdom is that Tom Cruise shot himself in both feet and the stomach. And he's tryin...
ALLAN MAYER Never, ever underestimate the power of 'Id Like that.
JOHN MAYER I'm having the time of my life figuring out this next move.
JOHN MAYER Life is like a box of crayons. Most people are the 8-color boxes, but what you're really looking for...
JOHN MAYER You learn to like someone when you find out what makes them laugh, but you can never truly love some...
JOHN MAYER When people think about computer science, they imagine people with pocket protectors and thick glass...
MARISSA MAYER I took a computer-science course to fill a prerequisite at Stanford, and I realized that every day w...
MARISSA MAYER You make a choice in your life, and it affects your life in all the ways, good and bad.
JOHN MAYER I have the obsessiveness of someone who's a sober, recovering addict displacing his addiction. E...
JOHN MAYER Maybe someday you can accuse somebody of being a poseur by selling out and playing blues music, but ...
JOHN MAYER Really in technology, it's about the people, getting the best people, retaining them, nurturing ...
MARISSA MAYER A man's got two shots for jewelry: a wedding ring and a watch. The watch is a lot easier to get ...
JOHN MAYER Sometimes I wish that I was the weather, you'd bring me up in conversation forever. And when it ...
JOHN MAYER I think Google should be like a Swiss Army knife: clean, simple, the tool you want to take everywher...
MARISSA MAYER You can't have everything you want, but you can have the things that really matter to you.
MARISSA MAYER It's really wonderful to work in an environment with a lot of smart people.
MARISSA MAYER Employees, especially young people, want more than a paycheck.
MARISSA MAYER I pace myself by taking a week-long vacation every four months.
MARISSA MAYER I think that there is a generational change, where new generations that have grown up always having ...
MARISSA MAYER Communications is the biggest driver of frequency of use of anything. Think about how many times a d...
MARISSA MAYER I've always liked simplicity.
MARISSA MAYER You can be good at technology and like fashion and art. You can be good at technology and be a jock....
MARISSA MAYER I really wanted to be a doctor, until my freshman year of college when I realized that while I was g...
MARISSA MAYER Product management really is the fusion between technology, what engineers do - and the business sid...
MARISSA MAYER Shifting toward management meant greater responsibility and influence, but it also meant giving up p...
MARISSA MAYER I didn't set out to be at the top of technology companies. I'm just geeky and shy, and I lik...
MARISSA MAYER To me, speed is really about convenience.
MARISSA MAYER I have a theory that burnout is about resentment. And you beat it by knowing what it is you're g...
MARISSA MAYER Geeks are people who love something so much that all the details matter.
MARISSA MAYER I really believe that the virtual world mirrors the physical world.
MARISSA MAYER I always did something I was a little not ready to do. I think that's how you grow. When there&#...
MARISSA MAYER If you can find something that you're really passionate about, whether you're a man or a wom...
MARISSA MAYER When you need to innovate, you need collaboration.
MARISSA MAYER I shopped at J. Crew in high school, I studied computer science. I was a nerd-nerd, now I'm a mu...
MAYER HAWTHORNE When you're just open but not honest, then you start free-associating garbage.
JOHN MAYER It's very liberating when you finally realize it's impossible to make everyone like you.
JOHN MAYER It's almost charity work, what people have done, turning other people on to my music.
JOHN MAYER Ladies, if you want to know the way to my heart... good spelling and good grammar, good punctuation,...
JOHN MAYER I knew what I wanted to do when I was 13 and I had to go through four years of high school to get ou...
JOHN MAYER You get to a certain age where you prepare yourself for happiness. Sometimes you never remember to a...
JOHN MAYER How dare you say it's nothing to me?
Baby, you're the only light I ever saw.
JOHN MAYER I look away at car crashes, and I know people who look away at car crashes, because it makes us unco...
JOHN MAYER I need some kind of emotional stake in it to write my lyrics, assuming that place. It might just be ...
JOHN MAYER A big part of the Motown formula was, they took music and turned it into this sort of automotive ass...
MAYER HAWTHORNE Beyond basic mathematical aptitude, the difference between good programmers and great programmers is...
MARISSA MAYER There's a constantly applicable nature to soul music, whereas sometimes pop music can be a perio...
JOHN MAYER Even when I was a hip-hop DJ I always kept it classy. The motto is always 'flashy but classy....
MAYER HAWTHORNE Even when I was a hip-hop DJ I always kept it classy. The motto is always 'flashy but classy....
MAYER HAWTHORNE I've never been a bad boy.
JOHN MAYER I hope that what it comes down to at the end of the day is that people believe that I believe what I...
JOHN MAYER I like giving people something they don't want to miss the next time. It's a show with littl...
JOHN MAYER It was our view of the worst that could befall our people if they were taken captive. So, what was f...
JANE MAYER Barry White, Smokey Robinson and Curtis Mayfield are big influences for me. But I'm also a metal...
MAYER HAWTHORNE If you had started doing anything two weeks ago, by today you would have been two weeks better at it...
JOHN MAYER But there have been many news reports that water-boarding has been used on Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, w...
JANE MAYER She's good. I think she'll break 40 some time this year. She's that good.
BOB MAYER They have so much potential. I worry that they don't know how good they could be. That scares me.
BOB MAYER They have gotten us off to a good start. That takes pressure off the younger kids.
BOB MAYER I'm real happy with the way we've played. I'm just waiting for a good number on the road.
BOB MAYER It's going to be a year in the writing life, Jan. 1 to Dec. 31. We're having a blast with it, postin...
BOB MAYER Once things got going, it worked so well. We created a new genre of romantic adventure.
BOB MAYER All the girls wrote goals for themselves and the team. The goals were pretty simple. Each girl wante...
BOB MAYER The seniors have been through it all. They are solid players individually, excellent leaders.
BOB MAYER We showed a lot of depth.
BOB MAYER Search occupies this wonderful moment in a user's day where it doesn't even really break alo...
MARISSA MAYER I don't want to detach. I don't want to go live in a gated community.
JOHN MAYER I really like even numbers, and I like heavily divisible numbers. Twelve is my lucky number - I just...
MARISSA MAYER Sometimes I get so bold and I'm so confident about what I'm doing that I actually try to be ...
JOHN MAYER I'm not deluded enough to think that everyone who knows my name is a listener. You know, I hope ...
JOHN MAYER You cannot avoid war in life, you cannot avoid the fear of terrorism, you cannot avoid those things ...
JOHN MAYER Why not be happy after a while? You get to a certain age where you prepare yourself for happiness. S...
JOHN MAYER MCI is the Energizer Bunny of consumer fraud. They just keep over-billing and over-billing and over-...
CARL MAYER Sometimes I wish that I was the weather, you'd bring me up in conversation forever. And when it rain...
JOHN MAYER James Brown is the perfect example of flashy but classy. Classy doesn't have to mean boring. His...
MAYER HAWTHORNE I can't even explain to you how terrible that feels, that I equate dating a woman with punishmen...
JOHN MAYER Before Google, I spent the summer building a program that would look at what websites you would go t...
MARISSA MAYER The night I was recognized for 'Daughters' at the Grammys was the night this record started....
JOHN MAYER People want to see musicians sing things that come from their own mind and own heart in real time, r...
JOHN MAYER I'm willing to make compromises based on someone I think is the one, but I think it's psycho...
JOHN MAYER I've realized you can use a fork as a spoon if you use it rapidly enough.
JOHN MAYER In the quest to be clever, I completely forgot about the people that I love and that love me.
JOHN MAYER Gary Numan had a huge influence on both my music and my style. He had his own unique fashion sense -...
MAYER HAWTHORNE My intentions with any of my music is to keep it futuristic and updated and be experimental and try ...
MAYER HAWTHORNE Ethically, I think pretty much every code of ethics for doctors suggests that they should not be in ...
JANE MAYER Management is defense. You basically say, 'This is the direction; this is where we're headin...
MARISSA MAYER For many people, Google is the most important tool on the Web.
MARISSA MAYER I'm singing what I want to sing based on the emotion of what that day feels like. That's wha...
JOHN MAYER I'm not an icon. Not even in America.
JOHN MAYER I really don't want to be a hunk.
JOHN MAYER I think like my dad, but I have a huge kinship with my mom.
MARISSA MAYER I didn't appreciate Mick Jagger until I got older, and mainly because of the Mick Jagger swagger...
MAYER HAWTHORNE I'm trying everything I can not to be jaded 'cause I don't like jaded musicians.
JOHN MAYER I've figured out my learning curve. I can look at something and somehow know exactly how long it...
JOHN MAYER Some of the questions to determine you are who you say you are make it tedious to complete. The prog...
ROBERT MAYER Turn your backs on them. Among motorcycle groups, that's the ultimate sign of disrespect. You're tel...
KURT MAYER I feel my shows are like a late-night talk show that we settle down and do every night.
JOHN MAYER Instead of saying hello, we say, 'I see you' because it means that I see you as a person, I recogniz...
DAVID MAYER And I think that what is of concern is that they seem to be bringing skills from the scientific worl...
JANE MAYER We're a casual dining restaurant that serves breakfast.
DANI MAYER We're looking at this as a business transformation. The goal is to align the business across the com...
CHRIS MAYER Will the social networking phenomenon lessen? I don't think so.
MARISSA MAYER I believe in blues, and I believe that it's been misrepresented.
JOHN MAYER Sometimes it feels like my life is just one long day.
JOHN MAYER My brother told me about this and brought me in, he's in a band that wants to use this place.
BECKY MAYER We're trying to do a lot of things to bring all aspects of the community together. People can come h...
BECKY MAYER The Space targets a younger audience than some of the other venues in Springfield. We want to give u...
BECKY MAYER My dad calls me 'Mac' a lot, from 'Mike Tyson's Punch Out' - Little Mac is the m...
MAYER HAWTHORNE I think that what happens is that all of my modern influences blend together with the older soul inf...
MAYER HAWTHORNE I learn the most from trial and error. I learn about what I'd like to be able to do from people ...
MAYER HAWTHORNE I like to stay in the rhythm of things. My maternity leave will be a few weeks long, and I'll wo...
MARISSA MAYER I'm a good music provider, and I'm fine with that. I'm a quality music manufacturer.
JOHN MAYER We pay the distributor for showing the film $350 to $700 for each showing, each film.
ANNETTE MAYER Our goal is to increase the community's understanding of different races and cultures. That's the bo...
ANNETTE MAYER We do not have a reasonable basis for establishing a liability reserve. Our story stays the same fro...
TED MAYER People will send me tweets or texts, 'Yo, I'm at Red Lobster now and they're playing May...
MAYER HAWTHORNE Man, I have so many names that everybody calls me something different. Some people call me Drew, som...
MAYER HAWTHORNE Tore up my heart and shut it down. Nothing to do, nowhere to be. A simple little kind of free. Nothi...
JOHN MAYER This is not to say, there never comes a day I'll take my chances and start again. And when I look be...
JOHN MAYER I get recognized somewhere in between like local meteorologist and national meteorologist.
JOHN MAYER There wasn't a ton of time to write this record but that's also good because there wasn't a ton of t...
JOHN MAYER I'm thinking about coming out with a full body velour jumpsuit. No joke.If I get tired of playing mu...
JOHN MAYER We have an immediate and dire need for this. The board has voted already to go ahead with this.
JOHN MAYER It makes you feel like you're on vacation. It's the kind of drink that should have an umbrella stick...
JOHN MAYER It seems like the other 20 people in the county know what is better for us than our own representati...
JOHN MAYER If you get half a million, at a certain stage you probably will get 4 million people, if they are ab...
JOHN MAYER It is too easy to watch music coming out of people's mouths lately and you're not quite sure if it w...
JOHN MAYER I hope that what it comes down to at the end of the day is that people believe that I believe what I...
JOHN MAYER Hopefully people can see my music is tethered to my brain.
JOHN MAYER [The stellar track on the disc is the last,] My Yard. ... We can stay up all night/ It's nothing fan...
JOHN MAYER I like giving people something they don't want to miss the next time. It's a show with little twists...
JOHN MAYER Scared of the world outside you should go explore, pull all the shades and wander the great indoors....
JOHN MAYER The pact has the flaw that the accused are their own judges, so they really like the defendants. The...
THOMAS MAYER The market favors open choice for search, and companies should compete for users based on their qual...
MARISSA MAYER We feel this is going to change the face of finance sites.
MARISSA MAYER Steve Jobs is the best at launching new products. They have to see how he does it.
MARISSA MAYER I'd like to think the best of me was still hiding up in my sleeve.
JOHN MAYER Clearly the spam problem is not going away and users are being bombarded with inane and possibly off...
BETHANY MAYER My fear is that I go up to the girl of my dreams and say 'I'm sorry, but I've got to say...
JOHN MAYER "I'm weaker than you know."
JOHN MAYER So what, so I've got a smile on
But it's hiding the quiet superstitions in my head
JOHN MAYER Who I am as a guitarist is defined by my failure to become Jimi Hendrix.
JOHN MAYER High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just plain us...
JOHN MAYER I think it's very comforting for people to put me in a box. 'Oh, she's a fluffy girlie g...
MARISSA MAYER I can't wait to figure out what wrong with me, so I can say this is the way that I used to be
JOHN MAYER Numb is the new deep, done with the old me, and talk is the same cheap it's been.
JOHN MAYER the trapper keeper is the genisis of OCD for my generation.
JOHN MAYER I was completely shattered. I couldn't think clearly. When something like that happens to you, you a...
WALTER MAYER I'm not being trite. I'm not being a parody of myself, and in finding a new kind of color to adopt f...
JOHN MAYER It was amazing what their volunteers were able to do to make it painless. They have the best volunte...
SHARON MAYER We believe that we have an index that is three times larger (without counting duplicate pages).
MARISSA MAYER This has been one of the longstanding unfilled user needs. We saw a search need where we weren't pro...
MARISSA MAYER I can imagine an operating system that some day does a better job storing your data, using (a) netwo...
MARISSA MAYER We are excited to make an investment in AOL's future. It gives us more opportunities with more adver...
MARISSA MAYER We think this will be a very useful tool, but you will have to give up some of your privacy. For man...
MARISSA MAYER Our focus is on the user and the product.
MARISSA MAYER Just follow our lead. They'll eventually lose steam and turn tail. You just have to turn your back o...
KURT MAYER We started with one of the easiest places to organize, websites. Given our talents and skills, now w...
MARISSA MAYER Even if you think the flame has died, there's at least one lyric that'll hit that last hot spot, and...
JOHN MAYER Someday, everything will make perfect sense. So for now, laugh at the confusion, smile through the t...
JOHN MAYER Just looking at the overall idea of what they're trying to provide, it might make more sense for Min...
BRAD MAYER There is an argument that says we shouldn't provide services companies can provide, but our goal is ...
BRAD MAYER You always start to butt heads after awhile. The city's goal is always to provide a public service, ...
BRAD MAYER This is really the only formal black tie optional event that's held in Allen. We always have a lot o...
SHARON MAYER The question is, what's student services doing to identify ubiquitous, secure network storage for st...
BILL MAYER I wish I could predict the weather, but if we don't get any rain around here, it definitely could be...
BILL MAYER He's grown up with those guys. He saw how its supposed to be done over the years. That's an advantag...
BILL MAYER He's always on the offensive. He's not defending.
BILL MAYER He's confident because he's been through all of it before. He knows it is his time to shine.
BILL MAYER If it weren't for the animals waiting for her, she wouldn't bother getting out of bed. Then, room se...
DALE MAYER He implicitly admitted that they have a bias for a tighter policy. They believe that rates are very ...
THOMAS MAYER It is short-sighted protectionist measures - like the ones being pursued by members of Congress - th...
CHRIS MAYER What I enjoy about the live experience is getting onstage, being handed a guitar that is in tune, ta...
JOHN MAYER Dont keep your heart safe.. be vulnerable
JOHN MAYER I'd like to think the best of me was still hiding up in my sleeve.
JOHN MAYER I'm weaker than you know.
JOHN MAYER Never underestimate the power of "I'd like that."
JOHN MAYER