ISIS have to be defeated. They have to be defeated militarily. How are we going to do that if we continue to weaken our military?
All our engineers are designers and all our designers are engineers.
Hire inexperience. This year we plan to hire 200 engineers - half of whom are recent grads. Young people are not burdened by years of experience. They haven't learned - or been told - what is right or wrong. With engineering, there is no tried and tested path. You try, and fail, and fix, and fail again.
Engineering is treated with disdain, on the whole. It's considered to be rather boring and irrelevant, yet neither of those is true.
There is no such thing as a quantum leap. There is only dogged persistence - and in the end you make it look like a quantum leap.
Engineers are behind the cars we drive, the pills we pop and the way we power our homes.
Anyone developing new products and new technology needs one characteristic above all else: hope.
We've gone through the urban renewal cycle in the '60s and '70s that really did a lot of damage to the fabric of urban life - neighborhoods bulldozed and highways pushed through, and all that kind of stuff that really destroyed the kind of social underpinning and the kind of mom and pop stores and all the stuff that makes a community viable.
I don't think I've ever done a character like this before, so I couldn't really draw from previous roles. I've been known for doing a lot of comedies in England, so I don't think that would have worked. I completely went from scratch, with this one, and used the research and what was in the script, and spoke to Chris. It's all from in my mind ,rather than drawing from previous experiences or roles.
I've always considered music stores to be the graveyards of musicians.
After six years at Le Cirque, I decided to start my own business. I opened Daniel at 76th Street in May 93.