Michael Ryan Quotations

The fact that pay for performance is reinstated demonstrates that council recognizes the quality of staff that we have here. And it shows that they understand the benefits in rewarding and retaining quality service.

Like everyone else, the school system will have to deal with increased utility costs. We already are running with a deficit from fuel oil for this year's budget.

Maintaining vigilance is going to be a long and exhausting process. Nobody can say with any certainty when a pandemic virus will emerge.

Because they (NASA) had abandoned the military style of command and gone to a corporate style, they lost the ability to have clear communication. It (Challenger disaster) is a great lesson in organizational structure and how to achieve high-risk goals.

He is just amazing. I'm always lucky to have him.

When he's on, he's definitely on. When he's off, he's still pretty good. And when he takes the mound, you know he gives you a chance to win. It's just a matter of scoring runs for him.

Kathy has played a tremendous role in developing the look and the feel of Flower Mound over the past 30 years. There are very few projects that she has not touched in some way or another. From a staff point of view, we are sad to see her go. She is a friend and a great resource for us. After 32 years, she has an historical knowledge of the town.

It is something the residents had requested. The return envelope will add a level of privacy and security with their utility bills. It is also an additional avenue to communicate with our residents.

Larger enterprise customers and several major universities have had significant input into this release. Version 4 has been workforce tested in a wide variety of real-world environments with various configurations and high volumes of users and transactions.

Some guys had more points, but the goals were a result of other guys working hard.

This would cater for 700 children which is probably too small when you consider we will need 1,500 places between now and 2009.

When the prices go up, we suffer the consequences of the prices going up. All of our customers do as well.

We'll take three themes from the audience, then make up something on the spot. We'll stray a little bit from the flamenco theme, but it's a lot of fun.

To be able to live in another country and earn your credits is such an opportunity, and it isn't as expensive as students think. Studying abroad is really an opportunity you don't really have once you are in the work force.

We're going to be OK. It's just once we get the money in hand.

Council and staff have been optimistic since the beginning of the budget adoption process that our revenue for this year would be able to fund some of these items.

Advertising research is one-half frustration, one-half exclamation point, and one-half question-mark. If this adds up to more than 100 percent, it proves that mathematics and research sometimes gives confusing results.

Delays have been unfortunate. However we understand that they are typical for a project of this scope. We believe that they will be resolved in a timely manner.

It's a strange feeling, especially after last year when we had such a huge lead at this point. I don't think I can put into words what it feels like (to play games with no tangible importance).

That second period was a tough pill to swallow. We were winning the puck battles in the offensive end, but losing them in the defensive end. We need to work just as hard for the pucks in the defensive zone.

Clearly, people should limit their contact with dead or sick birds, but not every death of a bird in the world is necessarily avian influenza and it's important to remember that.

Clearly migratory birds may be implicated in spreading this disease and we may see avian influenza in other countries because of that.

I do not believe this establishes a pattern and I believe these are rare occurrences -- very, very tragic and unfortunate occurrences.

The emerging nations of the world need solid IP protection to assure long-term economic growth. ... Filmmakers, recording artists, software engineers, pharmaceutical researchers, and other creators and innovators can not thrive in economies where they are constantly being pirated. Fortunately, we now see countries like India, Jordan, Nigeria, Brazil and Botswana starting to take a closer look at how proper management of creativity and innovation can positively impact their economies.

You wish you had some games back, especially after this weekend, seeing how much fun everyone's having.