(35 quotes found)
“Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.”
William Osler
“I would have carved on the portals of the National Press Club, "Put not your trust in princes." Only the very rarest of princes can endure even a little criticism, and few of them can put up with even a pause in the adulation.”
Walter Lippmann
“Pale, beyond porch and portal,/ Crowned with calm leaves, she stands,/ Who gathers all things mortal/ With cold immortal hands.”
Algernon Charles Swinburne
“Beauty is momentary in the mind / The fitful tracing of a portal; / But in the flesh it is immortal. / The body dies; the body's beauty lives.”
Wallace Stevens
“Many media companies have already either stayed too long on the sidelines or bungled their online efforts. Portals give them the perfect opportunity to play catch-up. These sites bring programming expertise to the table, while big media companies bring off-line promotions, advertising relationships, attractive content, and deep pockets.”
Chris Charron
“This portal really is geared toward the business user, the knowledge workers who are involved in the business processes of these composite applications.”
Christine Wan
“All we're doing is serving as a portal. It's a one-stop shop that you can go to and find all of the resources that farmers can go and look at. If you just look at materials for your own state, you may not be aware of what's going on in the states around you and this site provides a lot of the good information.”
Bob Young
“While the general consumer has no problem using general travel portals, we feel that the affluent traveler has specific information needs that can only be found by providing a deeper level of service that is closer to concierge level than typically provided by the mass travel market.”
Dan Noyes
“It positions Amazon as a shopping portal, enhances their total market opportunity and serves to leverage their technology base and relationships forged with their customers.”
Chris Vroom
“The closed carrier portals and the limited interfaces make it difficult for new brands to break in. But as we get more powerful browsers and more powerful phones, we'll have new ways to seek out content. We'll start seeing new business models and new entrepreneurs.”
Seamus McAteer
