We are victims of evil customs. It is a crime against humanity that our women are shut up within the four walls of the houses as prisoners. There is no sanction anywhere for the deplorable condition in which our women have to live.

Truth always originates in a minority of one and every custom begins as a broken precedent.

Because Microsoft seems to sometimes not trust customer choice they salt XP with all these little gizmos and trap doors to get people to try Microsoft stuff. But the reality is that we're downloading more players than we ever have on a worldwide basis.

I never trust an executive who tends to pass the buck. Nor would I want to deal with him as a customer or a supplier.

You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built they'll want something new.

I did work at a mall in college - I think retail/customer service is just one of the most hideous jobs in the world. So I always try to be extra nice when I go into a store. But malls are part of our culture if you watched any teen comedy in the '80s. it's clear that malls are where we live!

Vivendi will be one of the very few top communications groups of the Internet age. We will have customers all over the globe providing services through all kinds of technology.

Our business is about technology yes. But it's also about operations and customer relationships.

More than 20 years on sustained competition informed customers and the rapid growth of new technology provide the necessary environment for substantial deregulation.

I'm not a tech guy. I'm looking at the technology with the eyes of my customers normal people's eyes.

There is no point in launching technology before customers are ready to use it.

Intel's still our main partner. We have not announced anything with AMD and don't have anything planned but we're constantly being aware to make sure our customers get the best technology.

In my column series 'The Main Thing ' I often talk about how Internet technology can improve the way people communicate - both within a business and between a business and its customers and partners.

Use state-of-the-heart technology online and offline to turn listeners into viral advocates and customers into raving fans.

So if you're a customer today the same person who came in to demonstrate the technology for you and helped you architect the solution before you bought it is likely going to be leading the team to help you do the implementation.

What new technology does is create new opportunities to do a job that customers want done.

Children are already accustomed to a world that moves faster and is more exciting than anything a teacher in front of a classroom can do.

All business success rests on something labeled a sale which at least momentarily weds company and customer.

The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.

Conservatism is a hard choice for a society that has become accustomed to big government and big entitlements promoted by liberals.

The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society and could be followed even if no law existed and others that are of advantage to a ruling minority but harmful to the masses of men and can be enforced on them only by terror.

Through their own actions customers can hold companies responsible to higher standards of social responsibility. Through collective action they can leverage their dollars to combat the force of those investors who myopically pursue profits at the expense of the rest of society.

It's sad that we have become so accustomed to bad service that we're shocked when we get good service.

We are so accustomed to think of religion as a thing between individual men and God that we can hardly enter into the idea of a religion in which a whole nation in its national organisation appears as the religious unit.