Quotes About Progress

My commitment is to continue making a Mexico where families live in an environment of peace and better security.

In Mexico City, I lived the efforts of the Mexican capital and I was happy.

Miami has always been a city of booms and busts.

I didn't want to sit and watch the grass grow my whole life. So I moved to Miami.

I think Kentucky really prepared me for Miami.

The days of an open mic night when I'd rock up in an old jumper are over.

I just started the way most comics start, doing open mic shows around Sacramento and San Francisco, and eventually, I moved to L.A. After about four or five years in L.A., I got the call to join the 'The Daily Show.'

I can always improve in the ring; I can improve on the mic. I can consistently keep improving.

He will be beginning a brand new chapter in the Michael Jackson legend.

The people that become the biggest jokes are people who do not change. They stay the way they were in the past. Look at Michael Jackson, he never evolved.

One way or another, we're going to fix the roads in Michigan.

I'm very proud of the auto industry in Michigan.

The Clean Michigan Initiative has been and continues to be a success.

I'm proud to be a Michigander, but I look around at the Michigan that my kids are growing up in and it doesn't look like the Michigan that I think of when I talk about my pride.

I've been in the industry doing games since the BBC Micro, the Acorn Atom, the Commodore 64.

San Francisco is the microcosm for what's happening all over the world.

Broadway, in my opinion, is a microcosm of America. Those challenges that we have in our country, I think we still have those challenges on the Broadway stage. I think there are far too few African-American directors working on Broadway.

And my mother fought hard for civil rights so that instead of a mop, I could hold this microphone.

In the early '80s, I happened to find myself in the vicinity of people who would work for Microsoft five years later.

How could this Y2K be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?

If you bet on Microsoft, you are not going to ask anymore, 'Hey, where is the innovation?' The challenge going forward is how do we keep up with it.

As you know, Microsoft eventually kind of grabbed the gold ring out of Apple's hands, I guess.

Companies such as Microsoft, Cisco and Intel were just starting at their 10-year anniversary.

I spent almost 25 years at Qualcomm before joining Microsoft, so in a sense, I grew up at one company. During that time, I made a very big shift from the engineering side to the business side.