Firemen and police have a big Celtic background, from way back when New York police and firemen were mostly of read more

Firemen and police have a big Celtic background, from way back when New York police and firemen were mostly of Irish and Scottish descent.

Fifty-acre parcels are generally not that available in Silicon Valley. You can't buy 50 acres, you have to piece it read more

Fifty-acre parcels are generally not that available in Silicon Valley. You can't buy 50 acres, you have to piece it together. So if you're Apple and you're going to go through the trouble of putting it together, you might as well pick an area you want to stay in, as opposed to one further away where you might save money but it will be just as difficult to assemble.

Overall, we are pretty optimistic. We think the September and December quarters will be good ones for the enterprise software read more

Overall, we are pretty optimistic. We think the September and December quarters will be good ones for the enterprise software providers. The business software cycle is on the rise, rebounding nicely from the Y2K problem of last year and the successful transition from client-server architecture to Internet architecture software.

I think we're going to see a rate increase at the end of March and another one at the end read more

I think we're going to see a rate increase at the end of March and another one at the end of May to bring us up to 5 percent. Then I think the Federal Reserve will step back for a while to smell the roses.

You saw us playing the way we have to play down the stretch. The way we must play the rest read more

You saw us playing the way we have to play down the stretch. The way we must play the rest of the way.

For several centuries what has passed for song in literary circles was any text that looked like the lyrics for read more

For several centuries what has passed for song in literary circles was any text that looked like the lyrics for a commonplace melodic setting.

The absurdity of it gets played out in the day-to-day lives of Border Patrol agents. Everybody knows somebody [in the read more

The absurdity of it gets played out in the day-to-day lives of Border Patrol agents. Everybody knows somebody [in the U.S. illegally] who has some kind of relationship with a Border Patrol agent. Either someone in their family is married to one, or they're sleeping with one. People's lives are very complicated and intertwined and they're not very clear-cut.

You're going to win games you aren't supposed to win and lose games you aren't supposed to lose. We weren't read more

You're going to win games you aren't supposed to win and lose games you aren't supposed to lose. We weren't supposed to lose this game.

The immediate reaction was a pretty big move in rates after he suggested that there is a risk overseas troubles read more

The immediate reaction was a pretty big move in rates after he suggested that there is a risk overseas troubles will hit the U.S..