21 Quotes by John Gage

Shutting the door on schools that are doing a great job educating the children of military families doesn't make any financial or common sense.

The people that make above a dollar a day, under three dollars a day, generally have some electricity. They've got television sets that run on car batteries, or they will have a little generator. Everywhere there is a flicker of a TV screen is a target for putting one of these PlayStation things hooked to a satellite.

With all the businesses of the world together we can link all of the poor countries, the schools, hospitals and health clinics of the poor countries and get them all on the Net. That helps enormously, for example, in sending information about AIDS.

We had hoped that Judge Collyer's decision would bring all parties involved to the bargaining table.

We are definitely one of the bigger employers in Coventry. We have someone for everything - med techs, nurses, food service and social workers.

The PlayStation, $300 with a DVD-player and it runs Linux and Java, it's huge. Why would you ever put a PC someplace? It breaks all the time. You would spend more time fixing it than teaching (how to use it). These things (the PlayStation consoles) are designed for 12-year-olds and are really powerful.

We will use anything that can carry IP packets to get to the poor countries. You can modulate the radio and TV frequencies, use telephone lines or have packets come down via satellite. The Globalstar idea is the result of a conversation in the last week. We're trying to establish the technical feasibility. Can we do all this? The answer is yes. But then, the devil is in the details,

This threat of cronyism and patronage, I don't think it's a threat anymore. I think it's a promise.

provides this administration with an opportunity to rethink its misguided wholesale privatization policy.