We did some soul-searching. Was the cable industry obsolete? Was it an opportune time to get out? Our conclusion was that if you rebuilt your system with this new fiber-optic coaxial hybrid - which we now call broadband - the glass was half full, not half empty. We could compete.

  • -- Brian L. Roberts 布莱恩·罗伯茨

我们做了一些自我反省。有线电视行业过时了吗?现在出去合适吗?我们的结论是,如果你用这种新的光纤同轴混合器(我们现在称之为宽带)重建你的系统,玻璃就会是半满的,而不是半空的。我们可以竞争。

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There never has been a time in our history when work was so abundant or when wages were as high, whether measured by the currency in which they are paid or by their power to supply the necessaries and comforts of life.

在我们的历史上,从来没有一个时期的工作是如此丰富,工资是如此高,无论是用货币来衡量,还是用他们提供生活必需品和舒适的能力来衡量。

I know she would want me to still do what I'm doing, because she kept me going a lot of times when I'd almost lose interest in getting out on the road.

我知道她会想让我继续做我现在正在做的事情,因为很多时候,当我几乎对出门失去兴趣的时候,她会让我继续走下去。