Century Quotations | Page 7

Over the past year, we've reaffirmed our commitment to delivering breakthrough innovation by aligning our development efforts with customers' needs and their current technology environment. Convergence 2006 is certain to provide tremendous opportunity for Microsoft Business Solutions' customers and partners to share ideas and knowledge. Together, we are building a new approach to supporting information workers in the 21st century with integrated, adaptable business management solutions to enable better decision-making, improve productivity and help increase the efficiency of business processes.

I cannot become modest; too many things burn in me; the old solutions are falling apart; nothing has been done yet with the new ones. So I begin, everywhere at once, as if I had a century ahead of me.

I get so many requests for these episodes on VHS and DVD. Unfortunately, I do not have any episodes available at this time. The rights for the series are currently held by both 20th Century Fox (the studio that produced the show) and the Estate of Max Shulman (the creator of the series).

if work has really improved since the beginning of the century or if it is just clothed in fancy terms and done in cleaner, better-lighted places.

If we act decisively now to improve our infrastructure, we can insure that air travel in the 21st century is the safest, most cost effective, most efficient in the world.

If the 20th century taught us anything, it is to be cautious about the work impossible.

If the 20th century is any guide, the 21st century looks quite rosy indeed. Any indices you look at, whether it's human mortality, life expectancy, caloric intake, any tangible measure of human well-being shows that the world is becoming a healthier, safer, better-fed place than it was before.

We are seeing a workplace in transition, shifting from models that served the needs of the 20th century to those that serve the needs of the 21st century--and most of these changes that make work 'work' for employers and employees appear to be here to stay.

Whatever I did in 1960, half a century ago, I couldn't do that today and enter the field. The field has changed so much, you have to adapt to the times whatever you're doing. That's the reality of life: you have to be a different person today than you had to be then.

There is a fundamental change taking place in terms of how corporations create value and arguably, in terms of the core architecture of the corporation. I think it's the biggest change in a century in the ways that companies build relationships and interact with other entities, institutions in the economy and in society and arguably, the nature of the corporation itself.