Stephen Baker quote: "Historically, November is the month when manufacturers and retailers vie for consumer dollars, simply to generate the most revenue at the start of the holiday buying season."

Watson represents merely a step in the development of smart machines. Its answering prowess, so form...
STEPHEN BAKER

To bathe a cat takes brute force, perseverance, courage of conviction - and a cat. The last ingredie...
STEPHEN BAKER

The real benefit to writing things down is the ability to forget about something without also losing...
STEPHEN BAKER

If you look at why people are not buying PCs, most of the things I've seen say it's not price, it's ...
STEPHEN BAKER

People didn't stop spending money, they just spent it on things that complement their PCs.
STEPHEN BAKER

Typically, we see flat or slightly rising prices in December, because people are usually willing to ...
STEPHEN BAKER

The PC is a big durable goods item now. When the economy is slowing, people tend to reduce their spe...
STEPHEN BAKER

Apple has a pretty high bar to jump over,
STEPHEN BAKER

There need to be compelling reasons to replace your PC. And right now there aren't any.
STEPHEN BAKER

Would I buy a cell phone for my 12-year-old? ... No. I should have closer control over my child than...
STEPHEN BAKER

We haven't really given people a reason why they would want to own one yet.
STEPHEN BAKER

No one aside from Apple has been able to crack that styling thing, ... There hasn't been a hue and c...
STEPHEN BAKER

No one aside from Apple has been able to crack that styling thing. There hasn't been a hue and cry f...
STEPHEN BAKER

knocked [his] socks off.
STEPHEN BAKER

Strength of character is measured by our ability to resist ourselves.
STEPHEN BAKER

In some instances, companies are still just skimming the cream off of the early adopters and migrati...
STEPHEN BAKER

Would you let the sink back up for a week before you call the plumber? No, you'd get it fixed. It's ...
STEPHEN BAKER

The NPD Group's forecasting model is a unique combination of point-of-sale and consumer data, along ...
STEPHEN BAKER

Of all the toys available, none is better designed than the owner himself. A large multipurpose play...
STEPHEN BAKER

In some instances, companies are still just skimming the cream off of the early adopters and migrati...
STEPHEN BAKER

The best part about being a genius is that you only have to prove it once on the IQ test. After that...
STEPHEN BAKER

The NPD Group's forecasting model is a unique combination of point-of-sale and consumer data, along ...
STEPHEN BAKER

When you get released from the NFL it's not a pleasant experience and I may have sulked for abou...
STEPHEN BAKER

Love me or hate me, I'm impartial; neither is easily forgotten.
STEPHEN BAKER

I like Frenchmen very much, because even when they insult you they do it so nicely.
JOSEPHINE BAKER

The rainbow flag is a symbol of freedom and liberation that we made for ourselves.
GILBERT BAKER

Printed books usually outlive bookstores and the publishers who brought them out. They sit around, d...
NICHOLSON BAKER

What has 'The Patchwork Girl of Oz' got in its favor? Quite a lot, from our point of view in...
KAGE BAKER

People who like to fume about the manner in which Disney changed beloved classics are often ignorant...
KAGE BAKER

I saw the Kino print of 'The Man From Beyond,' but apparently a superior new print has been ...
KAGE BAKER

In 1916, Universal Studios released the first filmed adaptation of Jules Verne's novel '20,0...
KAGE BAKER

We who grew up with 'drop and cover' drills know all too well what wonders science can bring...
KAGE BAKER

Despite what you hear about the publishing industry being a fixed game that you can only get in if y...
KAGE BAKER

I detest flying anywhere. Left to my own devices, I'd never leave my keyboard.
KAGE BAKER

For those of you who thought F. W. Murnau's 'Nosferatu' was his greatest film, I have ne...
KAGE BAKER

Romantic Orientalism was fascinated by the color and excitement of a powerful culture, and nearly al...
KAGE BAKER

So vast is the shadow cast by the MGM production of 'The Wizard of Oz,' so indelible are its...
KAGE BAKER

If you want to see what stage comedians did to get laffs a century ago, watch the 1910 'Wizard o...
KAGE BAKER

The 1910 Edison film of 'Frankenstein' was itself a dead thing revived by technology.
KAGE BAKER

For all its flaws, 'The Hands of Orlac' really is a seminal film, and if you're partial ...
KAGE BAKER

In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corpo...
KAGE BAKER

According to Jewish legend, only the very wisest and very holiest rabbis had the power to make golem...
KAGE BAKER

Written and directed by French showman Georges Melies, 'Le Voyage' features one of the most ...
KAGE BAKER

Back when the concept of organ transplants qualified as science fiction, novelist Maurice Renard wro...
KAGE BAKER

In 1913, the noted German actor and director Paul Wegener was making a film in Prague when he heard ...
KAGE BAKER

I'm still learning my craft, and I've been writing since I was nine.
KAGE BAKER

All my life, I have maintained that the people of the world can learn to live together in peace if t...
JOSEPHINE BAKER

We do care about control and privacy. It's one of the reasons we are so focused on having our sy...
MITCHELL BAKER

I wasn't really naked. I simply didn't have any clothes on.
JOSEPHINE BAKER

Words don't describe how that feels. That's probably the biggest win we've had since I've been here....
AARON BAKER

(Brazil) wasn't the reason we lost.
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We just have to hold onto the ball and move it down the field and score. If we can put some points o...
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He can't evacuate with his wife and my niece, we're a little on edge about that but the hospitals ta...
AARON BAKER

I was totally discombobulated. I wondered why was I here in Rochester and when the community embrace...
AARON BAKER

We work hard. We don't hang out a lot, but we get a lot done. We're used to flying by the seat of ou...
AARON BAKER

like a lot of research tends to overlook children in some areas.
AARON BAKER

I truly believe I was sent there for a purpose. Other than the Red Cross, fate sent me there to help...
AARON BAKER

I do support the cause, but not enough because I don't buy hemp products. I don't have anything hemp...
AARON BAKER

Most of them come in here with just this overwhelming feeling of being lost. They don't know what ha...
AARON BAKER

The big one I missed out on was 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.' MGM wanted me for it, and Warner Br...
CARROLL BAKER

A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia get...
RUSSELL BAKER

We were all impressed with the quality of their work and, perhaps more importantly, their enthusiasm...
ALAN BAKER

Practically everything is pretty well-known.
ALAN BAKER

The odds are kind of stacked against us.
ALAN BAKER

Parliament would be doing a Pontius Pilate to wash their hands of the issue this week.
ALAN BAKER

It'll be good for Danbury and it's wonderful that the kids in Connecticut are being recognized,
ALAN BAKER

They have a true interest in law enforcement that's demonstrated by how well they placed in the comp...
ALAN BAKER

These are short-term gas prices, I know, but we've got to get through them somehow. So if it stays l...
ALAN BAKER

We have nothing to hide. We are perfectly prepared to cooperate, but we need a very clear set of ter...
ALAN BAKER

We can't just let things move and be extended without clearly understanding, between Israel and the ...
ALAN BAKER

We have nothing to hide,
ALAN BAKER

My natural instinct after doing something shameful is not to rush into the street boasting about it ...
RUSSELL BAKER

Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.
RUSSELL BAKER

Really only two things in life are definate, religion and war, in perfect harmony.
ADAM BAKER

Men and women alike from around the world are enjoying our Web site. We are receiving photos of the ...
ADAM BAKER

The response from the bars, nightclubs, and restaurants has also been tremendous, as they have appre...
ADAM BAKER

It's on everybody's minds right now. It's all anybody's thinking about.
ADAM BAKER

They're tall ... real tall. And real pretty.
ADAM BAKER

It's a good way to live out his legacy. We're seeing different races working together, trying to hel...
ADAM BAKER

An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best inc...
RUSSELL BAKER

Don't dare to be different, dare to be yourself - if that doesn't make you different then something ...
LAURA BAKER

The difference between men and women is this--if you catch a woman butt-naked, she tries to cover th...
DEB BAKER

I say if it's going to be done, let's do it. Let's not put it in the hands of fate. Let's not put it...
ANITA BAKER

Impossible is Nothing,” it said. “Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who f...
ELNA BAKER

Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and shoul...
RUSSELL BAKER

Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back...
RUSSELL BAKER

Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, o...
NICHOLSON BAKER

Footnotes are the finer-suckered surfaces that allow testicular paragraphs to hold fast to the wider...
NICHOLSON BAKER

You don't need to know who's playing on the White House tennis court to be a good president. A presi...
JAMES BAKER

In America nothing dies easier than tradition.
RUSSELL BAKER

Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three major categories -- those that don't work...
RUSSELL BAKER

The force of truth that a statement imparts, then, its prominence among the hordes of recorded obser...
NICHOLSON BAKER

Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in ...
RUSSELL BAKER

In my case, adulthood itself was not an advance, although it was a useful waymark.
NICHOLSON BAKER

Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really pr...
RUSSELL BAKER

It seems to be a law in American life that whatever enriches us anywhere except in the wallet inevit...
RUSSELL BAKER

So there he is at last. Man on the moon. The poor magnificent bungler! He can't even get to the offi...
RUSSELL BAKER

He has conferred on the practice of vacillation the aura of statesmanship.
KENNETH BAKER

The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him.
RUSSELL BAKER

To get rich never risk your health. For it is the truth that health is the wealth of wealth.
RICHARD BAKER

Today I have grown taller from walking with the trees.
KARL BAKER

But one of the things that has to be faced is
ELLA BAKER

You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family.
ANITA BAKER

I have always felt it was a handicap for oppressed peoples to depend so largely upon a leader, becau...
ELLA BAKER

I gave up on new poetry myself thirty years ago, when most of it began to read like coded messages p...
RUSSELL BAKER

The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.
IVY BAKER

Never let the other fellow set the agenda.
JAMES BAKER

Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've watche...
NICHOLSON BAKER

Because our children had had the privilege of growing up where they'd raised a lot of food. They wer...
ELLA BAKER

Socialists make the mistake of confusing individual worth with success. They believe you cannot allo...
KENNETH BAKER

The worst thing about the miracle of modern communications is the Pavlovian pressure it places upon ...
RUSSELL BAKER

The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.
IVY BAKER

I was learning the importance of names -- having them, making them --but at the same time I sensed...
JOSEPHINE BAKER

I blush easily. I have difficulty meeting people's eye, difficulty with public speaking, the nor...
NICHOLSON BAKER

WorldGate offers interactive set-top-box applications. Its customers want to interact with the Web a...
MITCHELL BAKER

The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist.
RUSSELL BAKER

I had a day off, and I was walking down the street one day, and this Mercedes pulls up alongside me,...
KENNY BAKER

I used to have to save my allowances to buy a quart of rubber to make a mask, and it's how I spe...
RICK BAKER

Completeness? Happiness? These words don't come close to describing my emotions. There truly is ...
ANITA BAKER

My people have a country of their own to go to if they choose... Africa... but, this America belongs...
JOSEPHINE BAKER

We needed something to express our joy, our beauty, our power. And the rainbow did that.
GILBERT BAKER

If I could be doing anything, I'd be laying on the floor in my birthday suit eating junk food an...
ANITA BAKER

The rainbow is a part of nature, and you have to be in the right place to see it. It's beautiful...
GILBERT BAKER

A rainbow is something in the sky, so a rainbow flag fits.
GILBERT BAKER

Roosevelt's declaration that Americans had 'nothing to fear but fear itself' was a glori...
RUSSELL BAKER

I'm a strong man, and usually I get over hurts and it makes me stronger when I come back.
DUSTY BAKER

Surely the day will come when color means nothing more than the skin tone, when religion is seen uni...
JOSEPHINE BAKER

A generation before, it had been sagebrush and coyotes; a generation later, it was a burgeoning movi...
KAGE BAKER

I wanted to get far away from those who believed in cruelty, so then I went to France, a land of tru...
JOSEPHINE BAKER

I understand personally that it is frustrating to lose presidential elections by narrow margins.
JAMES BAKER

Well, capitalism is going to grow and grow. The nature of it is that the guy who has the most poker ...
SIMON BAKER

We've broken the code base into logical chunks, called modules, and the foundation staff delegat...
MITCHELL BAKER

When Clark Gable kissed me, they had to carry me off the set.
CARROLL BAKER

I was very young when I saw 'Gone With the Wind,' but I fell in love with Clark Gable. And w...
CARROLL BAKER

I'm not sure where my career is going here in Cincinnati.
DUSTY BAKER

What the New Yorker calls home would seem like a couple of closets to most Americans, yet he manages...
RUSSELL BAKER

We're looking, hopefully, for a positive sales growth of about 2 percent this year. The stores that ...
BILL BAKER

They could use it as an opportunity, instead of complaining ---- we have a world full of complaints.
BILL BAKER

We don't have anything out there that says Windsor is cool.
BILL BAKER

The marriage of high-quality content and production expertise from PBS affiliates, along with robust...
BILL BAKER

More and more of my suppliers are tacking onto the bottom of their bills, 'fuel surcharge.
BILL BAKER

We played okay. We had 15 hits and we had an eight-run second inning.
BILL BAKER

We could plug him in anywhere on the field, and he would be one of the best out there, wherever he i...
BILL BAKER

We're pumped. Max didn't make the top 20 his sophomore year, and last year he was 17th by one point....
BILL BAKER

I'll need a week of sunshine and a little wind for it to dry out. And it's been difficult to get the...
BILL BAKER

Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories; those that don't...
RUSSELL BAKER

Fox News looks like it continues to power along. They continue to get great ratings and they increas...
ANDREW BAKER

The provision of quality health care within a reasonable distance to the residents it is intended to...
ANDREW BAKER

This part of Lutz is suburban. The proposed height for a hospital is compatible on Van Dyke Road nex...
ANDREW BAKER

It's a step up from a tent, but not much.
ANDREW BAKER

It certainly helps because they won't have to offer free spots to make up for bad ratings numbers. B...
ANDREW BAKER

This is another crucial milestone in our development programme, proving not only that our cell will ...
ANDREW BAKER

almost inexplicable in terms of blind stupidity.
ANDREW BAKER

It?s a high-risk proposition, but doing nothing is also a high-risk proposition for them, ... neutra...
ANDREW BAKER

It's a high-risk proposition, but doing nothing is also a high-risk proposition for them, ... neutra...
ANDREW BAKER

Obviously no one ever likes to hear that they're having technical issues with their covenants.
ANDREW BAKER

That is really excellent. We certainly want to do better, but we're running in the right direction.
ANDREA BAKER

We were able to take some of those savings... and reinvest them in SMART and Academic Competitivenes...
ANDREA BAKER

There are several kinds of loans you can get: public and private loans. (The federal government) can...
ANDREA BAKER

People want new partners, but would rather take up with someone they know than a stranger.
ANDREA BAKER

The Secretary of Education will decide which languages will be deemed critical to national security....
ANDREA BAKER

At the end of the week the villagers wanted to thank us, so they had a party, the bakery made cakes ...
ANN BAKER

Honduras is a beautiful country but the poverty is devastating and the issues of poverty are difficu...
ANN BAKER

If we didn't have these guys to help us, we wouldn't be able to have these baskets. Just imagine try...
ANN BAKER

We have been seriously delayed because of a lack of leadership, and I hope one day we can find that ...
ANN BAKER

If you understand a person's origins, you can understand her. I've always had to take care of myself...
ANITA BAKER

My mother only called when she wanted things. She doesn't know me, so how could she have a feeling f...
ANITA BAKER

Long tresses down to the floor can be beautiful, if you have that, but learn to love what you have.
ANITA BAKER

We don't do drugs, drink or use profanity. Instead we instill morals and values in my boys by raisin...
ANITA BAKER

My kids' eyes always light up -- 'Why are these people screaming over my mother?' ... People around ...
ANITA BAKER

At home I'm relaxed. I may be in the yard talking to neighbors, or riding my bike, or fishing, makin...
ANITA BAKER

I'm picking and choosing in terms of the stress factor. If it's not fun, I'm not going to do it.
ANITA BAKER

It's been a whirlwind. Everybody's been so supportive, especially here in the home base -- radio, pr...
ANITA BAKER

We've put in a new offense and we're not running it right yet. But we have some capable kids who sho...
ANDY BAKER

We're down by four (players) now. I guess we try and rest, and try to get healthy. I don't really kn...
ANDY BAKER

That project is moving. We have no intention of stopping.
ANDY BAKER

The Goodness Co. has been a strong partner for Allstate. The creative advertising design and guidanc...
ANDY BAKER

I want that same experience for my students. Bringing him here is a dream come true. Our students ar...
ANDY BAKER

I want that same experience for my students, ... Bringing him here is a dream come true. Our student...
ANDY BAKER

Maynard Ferguson loves doing this kind of stuff for high schools and colleges. He is a huge advocate...
ANDY BAKER

It's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for these students to be able to perform at one of the great c...
ANDY BAKER

They will learn what music is supposed to sound like.
ANDY BAKER

I really want to be able to show these kids what all the years of hard work and practice end up resu...
ANDY BAKER

In terms of distribution, it's predominantly health-care related.
AMY BAKER

We want to stress that there's more downside and uncertainty ahead. But we remain optimistic that th...
AMY BAKER

We remain optimistic that the strength of Florida's economy is going to carry us through any worst-c...
AMY BAKER

It's nice to let someone else do the driving and get there in the same amount of time. And I don't h...
AMY BAKER

I am so thrilled. I think we are an extremely strong exec board . . . [The members] are all enthusia...
AMY BAKER

Each scenario brings its own headaches.
AMY BAKER

We are grateful to everyone who contributes to the success of this important fundraiser, including t...
AMY BAKER

They feel like they are shuffled around all the time, like because they are inside the outer belt th...
AMY BAKER

If you saw him in Girl with a Pearl Earring [in 2003], his eyes were like milk chocolate buttons tha...
AMY BAKER

When it comes to adolescent eating disorders, it is usually the parents' responsibility to seek help...
AMY BAKER

I used to tour the theatres and clubs with an 18-foot luxury caravan strapped to the back of my Roll...
KENNY BAKER

These kids just seem to keep amazing me. The Woodlands is a fine team and I would not be surprised i...
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That was great. I didn't quite know what was going on. I thought there was going to be some sort of ...
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I am still amazed, as we are in season and it is difficult for any coach in Texas to receive this ho...
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I guess when you get my age, a couple things come your way that's nice. You have to attribute it to ...
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Janet has been in the art world for many, many years. She has certainly worked with galleries, but t...
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Historically, November is the month when manufacturers and retailers vie for consumer dollars, simply to generate the most revenue at the start of the holiday buying season.

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Historically, November is the month when manufacturers and retailers vie for consumer dollars, simply to generate the most revenue at the start of the holiday buying season.

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