A Quote by Paul Saffo

Microsoft is a big intellectual roach motel. All the big minds go in, and they don't come out. — © Paul Saffo
Microsoft is a big intellectual roach motel. All the big minds go in, and they don't come out.

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... the Kindle is a "roach motel" device: its license terms and DRM ensure that books can check in, but they can't check out.
You are what you think. So just think big, believe big, act big, work big, give big, forgive big, laugh big, love big and live big.
Microsoft has gotten so big that it can put out a Preview that will install itself without checking first to see if it has expired. The message here is that Microsoft's time is worth more than yours.... no start-up company could get away with being that arrogant.
I dream big. I think big. I try to go out and do it as big as I can.
Paris is a Roach Motel for top American journalists: They check in, having won the plum foreign posting, but never leave.
Big minds have big ideas. Small minds use big ideas to justify bad ideas.
I'm an only child, so I don't come from a big family. But it has been my observation from friends who do come from big families that usually, when you have a family fight, on the back end you come out better and stronger for it.
If you're big in Montreal, you're big in Quebec. If you're big in Toronto, you're big in Canada. But if you're big in New York, you're big in the rest of the world.
The hotel was once where things coalesced, where you could meet both townspeople and travelers. Not so in a motel. No matter how you build it, the motel remains the haunt of the quick and dirty, where the only locals are Chamber of Commerce boys every fourth Thursday. Who ever heard the returning traveler exclaim over one of the great motels of the world he stayed in? Motels can be big, but never grand.
There's a big anti-intellectual strain in the American south, and there always has been. We're not big on thought.
Our minds work in real time, which begins at the Big Bang and will end, if there is a Big Crunch - which seems unlikely, now, from the latest data showing accelerating expansion. Consciousness would come to an end at a singularity.
Republicans have been very successful. There are three things Americans don't like: big unions, big government and big corporations. So Republicans go after big government and big unions, and only talk about small businesses.
I come from good stock. Both of my parents are big - my dad is a big guy; my mom is a big lady.
Republicans have been very successful. There are three things Americans dont like: big unions, big government and big corporations. So Republicans go after big government and big unions, and only talk about small businesses.
I went to business school, and I went straight from that to a nine-year career at Microsoft. Eventually, I ran a big chunk of the consumer products division for Microsoft.Then I left with the birth of our first daughter because Bill and I both wanted to have a few kids.
You don't accidentally turn into a big band. Not even Nirvana accidentally turned into a big band. They toured - they wanted to become a big band. They didn't necessarily want to become that big of a band, but they still wanted to make a really good record and wanted to come out and tour.
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