#ted

The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas of enthusiasm. ↗

— Thomas John Watson, Sr.

#enthusiasm #great #ideas #man #resulted

The web of influence which News Corporation spun in Britain, which effectively bent politicians, police and many others in public life to its will, amounted to a shadow state. ↗

— Thomas Watson, Jr.

#bent #britain #corporation #effectively #influence

And obviously, with hindsight now, now knowing what went on in the company, it would have been absolutely appropriate back then for us to have the chief executive of the company, most senior person in the United Kingdom, come and answer for the policy they were pursuing. And we ducked that, and frankly that's a failure of Parliament. ↗

— Tom A. Watson

#answer #appropriate #back #been #chief

We tournament golfers are much overrated. We get paid to much. ↗

— Tom Watson

#golfers #much #overrated #paid #tournament

Secretly, I had always wanted to go to Vegas, and have my own really bad act! ↗

— Sigourney Weaver

#always #bad #go #had #i

I'd be more interested in doing a smaller, character driven thing, rather than another action picture. ↗

— Sigourney Weaver

#another #character #doing #driven #i

My father was always very interested in space. I watch Star Trek and all those things, but I always had a different picture in my mind... maybe closer to Alien. I don't see it in space as much as I do see it in different planets, with each having its own strange characters. ↗

— Sigourney Weaver

#always #characters #closer #different #each

Usually it's the guys that don't follow you around, who you're attracted to! ↗

— Sigourney Weaver

#attracted #follow #guys #usually #who

If a film isn't really talking about who we are and what our psychologies are, then we're probably not that interested in it, actually. ↗

— Hugo Weaving

#actually #film #interested #our #probably

It's a real pleasure to go to work when you're in the most extraordinary surroundings, and working with people who are young and interested and creatively keen. ↗

— Hugo Weaving

#extraordinary #go #interested #keen #most