The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.
Bill Gates

I'm sorry that we have to have a Washington presence. We thrived during our first 16 years without any of this. I never made a political visit to Washington and we had no people here. It wasn't on our radar screen. We were just making great software.
Bill Gates

My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.
George Washington

Lenience will operate with greater force, in some instances than rigor. It is therefore my first wish to have all of my conduct distinguished by it.
George Washington

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
Pablo Picasso

We did it Disneyland, in the knowledge that most of the people I talked to thought it would be a financial disaster - closed and forgotten within the first year.
Walt Disney

I started, actually, to make my first animated cartoon in 1920. Of course, they were very crude things then and I used sort of little puppet things.
Walt Disney

The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life, to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution - this everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths.
Groucho Marx

I remember the first time I had sex - I kept the receipt.
Groucho Marx

When I got my first television set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships.
Andy Warhol

If you ever need anything please don't hesitate to ask someone else first.
Kurt Cobain

I'm too busy acting like I'm not Naive. I've seen it all, I was here first.
Kurt Cobain

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it.
W. C. Fields

It's now clear that from the very moment President Bush took office, Iraq was his highest priority as unfinished business from the first Bush Administration. His agenda was clear: find a rationale to get rid of Saddam.
Edward Kennedy

In my country we go to prison first and then become President.
Nelson Mandela

Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second.
Robert Frost

Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on.
Robert Frost

The first wealth is health.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every artist was first an amateur.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.
Aristotle