#ear

In six short years, small business owners and family farmers will once again be assessed a tax on the value of their property at the time of their death, despite having paid taxes throughout their lifetime. ↗

— Doc Hastings

#assessed #business #business owners #death #despite

Now Congress learns that the Veterans Administration failed to provide complete, accurate information on the money it needs for both this year and next year. ↗

— Doc Hastings

#accurate information #administration #both #complete #congress

The need for this clinic is clear to me, to the veterans who are currently forced to travel hours to receive care, and even to the Veterans Administration that itself identified creation of a clinic in this part of our state as a priority to be completed by 2006. ↗

— Doc Hastings

#care #clear #clinic #completed #creation

Fibre optic is becoming like electricity. If you look at how electricity spread around the globe 100 years ago, that's what's happening now. ↗

— Reed Hastings

#ago #around #becoming #electricity #globe

I founded Netflix. I've built it steadily over 12 years now, first with DVD becoming profitable in 2002, a head-to-head ferocious battle with Blockbuster and evolving the company toward streaming. ↗

— Reed Hastings

#becoming #blockbuster #built #company #dvd

I think there will be 20 years of evolution from linear broadcast to internet television. ↗

— Reed Hastings

#evolution #i #i think #internet #linear

I'm on the Facebook board now. Little did they know that I thought Facebook was really stupid when I first heard about it back in 2005. ↗

— Reed Hastings

#back #board #did #facebook #first

In fact, technology has been the story of human progress from as long back as we know. In 100 years people will look back on now and say, 'That was the Internet Age.' And computers will be seen as a mere ingredient to the Internet Age. ↗

— Reed Hastings

#age #back #been #computers #fact

It is clear that for many of our members two websites would make things more difficult, so we are going to keep Netflix as one place to go for streaming and DVDs. ↗

— Reed Hastings

#difficult #dvds #go #going #keep

My first company, Pure Software, was exciting and innovative in the first few years and bureaucratic and painful in the last few before it got acquired. The problem was we tried to systemize everything and set up perfect procedures. ↗

— Reed Hastings

#before #bureaucratic #company #everything #exciting