Quotes About Industry

Que una industria semejante pudiera existir le pareció extraño e improbable hasta que leyó un artículo donde se calculaba que el tamaño de la economía mundial del oro virtual oscilaba entre los mil y los diez mil millones de dólares al año.

You've probably heard the expression that the Industry feeds off of biomass, like a whale straining krill from the ocean.

and large outdoor furnaces where the ore was refined, and mounds of earth in long rows where quicksilver was being used to extract silver from lower-grade ore. To Jack it was a toss

When Hiro learned how to do this, way back fifteen years ago, a hacker could sit down and write an entire piece of software by himself. Now, that's no longer possible. Software comes out of factories, and hackers are, to a greater or lesser extent, assembly-line workers. Worse yet, they may become managers who never get to write any code themselves.

Hollywood was merely a specialized bank—a consortium of large financial entities that hired talent, almost always for a flat rate, ordered that talent to create a product, and then marketed that product to death, all over the world, in every conceivable medium.

In the view of Hollywood, the techies of Silicon Valley were just a particularly naive form of talent.

I swear, can't you guys tell time? Didn't happen anymore. Pizza delivery is a major industry. A managed industry. People went to CosaNostra Pizza University four years just to learn it. Came in its doors unable to write an English sentence, from Abkhazia, Rwanda, Guanajuato, South Jersey, and came out knowing more about pizza than a Bedouin knows about sand.

A guy from Bear Stearns had visited our class, thin and bald with a gold watch. He told us that if we were interested in getting into finance, we had better work hard and smart because a lot of machines were able to make investment decisions now, and in the future, computer programs would run everything.

Nature creates few men brave, industry and training makes many.

Machiavelli was undoubtedly a man of great observation, acuteness, and industry; noting with appreciative eye whatever passed before him, and with his supreme literary gift turning it to account in his enforced retirement from affairs.

A wise prince ought to observe some such rules, and never in peaceful times stand idle, but increase his resources with industry in such a way that they may be available to him in adversity, so that if fortune chances it may find him prepared to resist her blows.

I didn't want to be a hero and get into the mould but the film industry doesn't work like that. It has a habit of branding you in a specific image to market you easily.

And then I went into television; and then television moved from the East Coast to Hollywood.

I was making a lot of independent movies before the independent movement.

I love having a major label behind me. Independent was really great to start off, as and I made some really big moves and gained a lot of fans.

The big French movie distributors are the Trojan horse of the American cinema.

There's a real cowardice in the movie business. If you don't meet the right crazy people, you can't do it.

When your in the movie business you have a start date and a stop date.

We live in the moment now where this whole movie business is crazy.

I feel I belong in the movie business and I belong in the security business. It's a natural for me.

I wish I had been born 20 years earlier, so I could have been in the movie business in the 1970s.

I've been in the bargain basement of the movie business.

Often, in the movie business, they need somebody who will garner box office because they need to pay for the movie. So the people who are in movies that make a lot of money are the people who most often get cast in studio pictures. In my career, I've never been a box office name.

The thing I always loved about the movie business is it is really a cowboy industry in the sense that there's no prescribed road into it or through it.