13 Quotes by John McManus

With the possible exception of the atomic bomb project, the date and place of the Normandy invasion was the most heavily sought after piece of information in the world in 1944, ... The Americans at D-Day.

We're seeing a real threat to journalism as a middle-class occupation and to the quality of news that we still need as citizens, ... all in the name of boosting share price for a limited number of investors.

This was a surprise, since we just spent $400,000 doing that same thing last year.

If we stood up a new enterprise architecture governance board, I would have got a lot of IT geeks. People don't argue with things that he signed out.

I respect the fact that some companies are seeing an opportunity to help those without domain expertise, while also opening up a revenue stream for themselves. But other companies are just looking for additional revenue streams, and that's unproductive. If you want to commercialize your software, you should make a clean break. Sometimes, it's difficult to separate the companies with the best intentions from those that are profit-driven and those whose intentions fall somewhere in the middle.

Open source is not free. You may not have to pay for the code, but it doesn't free you from having to exercise your brain and do whatever integration is required. If you don't think about maintenance, operation and integration costs, you may put zero dollars in your budget for an open-source project and then wonder why you're eating through money so quickly.

The antitrust people never seemed to catch on that suburban monopolies act in the way that urban monopolies do.

Most firms, if they're losing money, will cut expenditures.

During the run up over the past few years, the tendency has been to look at these companies as a synchronized sector, but that's all changing now. In the next 18 months, underneath all the rhetoric that good markets will offset deteriorating ones, nearly everyone expects there's going to be casualties among home builders of various sizes. The every-man-for-himself era among big residential construction companies has arrived.