John Browning Quotations

We remain well on track to meet all the new targets laid out in July.

We have small teams of people entering all our facilities to make sure they are safe before we enter them, and then we will bring each technical area up one at a time until we believe it is safe for the entire site to be brought up.

Many people saw on the frontier that communion should be open to anyone,

Certainly 1998 was worse than we expected. We saw the oil price falling at the beginning of the year and we took quick action to recognize that falling price and it kept falling,

There are the ideas of the Nash equilibrium, a play on different ways to bundle things.

I think that the incident that we dealt with this week was a serious incident. I think security at our lab is very strong, however. The lab has always taken security very seriously and we have a program in place that I think will address issues like these in the future.

Our continued performance delivery has underpinned our capacity to increase the dividend,

Our recent experience, particularly with solar, has given us the expertise and confidence to develop new products and markets alongside our mainstream business,

We'll continue to shift the balance of our business in favor of lower carbon energy sources and in particular natural gas,

We are now at a point where we have sufficient new technologies and sound commercial opportunities within our reach to build a significant and sustainable business in alternative and renewable energy,

to withstand the crash of a 747 into it.

We are working on creating self-describing, self-organizing, self-diagnosing and self-repairing networks.

To Anthony's credit, they could have found themselves embroiled in some major litigation a few years back ... Anthony got indemnity agreements drafted,

We see a bit of a peak in prices, ... We don't see these prices as fully sustainable.

we had run out of ideas at Los Alamos.

BP's fourth quarter result was particularly hit by the continued shutdown of our Texas City refinery, during its refurbishment.

Energy is an issue of national security in which governments, and the state companies that they have established, are likely to be involved for a long time.

Emerging markets are well known for their role in activities such as assembling consumer electronics products and providing low-level customer support through burgeoning call centers.

Far from being easy targets for exploitation, emerging markets are generating a wave of disruptive product and process innovations that are helping established companies and a new generation of entrepreneurs to achieve new price-performance levels for a range of globally traded goods and services. Eventually, such companies may capture significant market share in Europe and the United States.

Seeing differently is a critical skill for tomorrow's chief technology officers.

Prices could remain well above $40 a barrel for a considerable period of time, but predicting the future is a dangerous game, and we prefer to test long term investments on the basis of prices of not more than $25 a barrel.

Prices are expected to be well supported into the winter,

Anthony is very hands-on, participating in everything from formulating discovery requests to the opposing side to discussing trial strategy, ... A lot of his value to the company is managing litigation; it's also keeping an eye on the bottom line, the costs.

You said we had to be a good Russian corporate citizen. I have not forgotten that agenda.

This is an extremely serious matter, and we are taking swift actions to deal with it.

This deal is the very best of a number of good offers.

This points out the dilemma of balancing the requirements of national security against the constraints guiding law enforcement efforts,

It was at that point that they noticed that these hard drives were missing, ... They did not immediately call their supervisors, and the lab was closed for two weeks.

It is sad and regrettable that we are having to let very good staff go. But putting together two organizations means that we need fewer people and that situation is exacerbated by the continuing low oil price and hostile environment.

It's a different world. The new group will have to operate differently. The industrial partners will play an important role. If there's a product the government wants, they will necessarily be focused on delivering that. A lot more money will be at stake.

It made it more difficult to easily visually observe whether a person had a clearance,

India is one of the fastest growing energy markets in the world.

In spite of that, they asked me to come back,

How do we move forward to rapidly stream together the right kinds of processes that do all we need to do? ... Technological determinism won't work. Real innovation involves people and business in all the complication of real life. How do we really do innovation between technological innovation and social projects? We need to step back and honor the co-evolution.

How do we bundle business processes in this model,

General economic slowdown, a sharp fall in oil and gas prices certainly made for tough going,

I am accountable for all the actions at my laboratory. I am accountable for all of the policies and procedures of security systems, and I am accountable for the training of the individuals working in the lab. We can't excuse them if they ignore these policies, if they are negligent, we have to hold them accountable as well.

You'd have to be able to burn that whole concrete structure to the ground.

The industry has not been an attractive place for people to work,

The market system has responded remarkably to all those disruptions.

The (low) price of oil clearly put pressure on us,