My taking a seat on the Council of the Fathers caused a desperate fluttering among my ghosts.
There's a powerful sense of reality to our concepts,. . . These are vehicles we think people would purchase and drive today.
Being able to ‘think out of the box’ presupposes you were able to think in it.
It applies in any business. Shoemakers should be run by shoe guys, and software firms by software guys, and supermarkets by supermarket guys. With the advice and support of their bean counters, absolutely, but with the final word going to those who live and breathe the customer experience. Passion and drive for excellence will win over the computer-like, dispassionate, analysis-driven philosophy every time.
Tesla burns cash. It's not a car company, it's a cult of fanatics who think Elon Musk can do no wrong. But financially, it doesn't work.
The electrification of the automobile is inevitable.
With autonomous cars, you're gonna see more consolidation. Once we have transport modules, you order off the phone and brands won't matter anymore. When brands don't matter, the auto industry ends. It's got another 20 years.
The U. S. population, a mere four or five percent of the world total, creates half the world's toxic waste.
I don't try to sound like anyone but me anymore. If something is out of my element, I try to avoid it.
Many good poets are really essayists who write very short essays.
Food can be utilized for economic reasons, like the grain embargo of Carter 40 years ago. You have a political decision, you are going to move the flow of food in a part of the world and not another part of the world. And certainly now, with the way the country is polarized and all that, you wouldn't want to have a French menu, with a French thing - you'd be crucified! Or anything like that. You have to be a real American and apple pie and this and that.