“Right down on the bottom man, you got to start there and work your way up. I mean I was a first round draft pick, and I hardly ever played.... He'll probably have to start at the bottom and work through everything to get up the ladder.”
“He was very humble. He didn't necessarily need recognition for doing the things he did. That was not what my father was about. He worked very hard to do what he thought was right.”
“I turned it around on him a week or 2 later when I saw him when I was coming in to work out, ... I was out front of PCOM on the phone, and I asked him, 'Where do I know you from?' So after that we became cool, and we were talking every day. As long as he knows my name around 7 o'clock every night, that's fine with me.”
“The fourth quarter capped a year of significant improvement for Teradyne. Throughout 2005, we had solid sequential growth in sales and bookings, strong fourth quarter profit performance in both our semiconductor test and non-semiconductor test businesses, and a much-improved balance sheet.”
“If we had every school district, we would have a more difficult time of narrowing the priorities. Other groups go in with 400 different issues, and there is no priority, then when legislators say, 'If we could do only three for you, what three will it be?' They're not able to answer.”
