Abandon Quote by Bob Sutton

“Then, unexpectedly, he phoned me late on the afternoon of New Year’s Eve 2009. He was at home in Palo Alto with only his…

— Walter Isaacson

Most of the media... is positioning the merger with Compaq and the recent actions by Walter Hewlett and David Packard as a fight between…

— Carly Fiorina

I wish HP nothing but the best. I think HP is an icon. Those of us who had their careers in the Valley think…

— Larry Ellison

“neighborhood was filled with engineers from Hewlett-Packard, then as now one of”

— Malcolm Gladwell

“Have you ever heard of anybody buying a vacuum cleaner at a vacuum cleaner store?" "One of the unsolved mysteries of the universe," Packard…

— Carolyn Crane

I managed Hewlett Packard through the worst technology downturn in 25 years, the dotcom bust.

— Carly Fiorina

“God, Packard! Do you know how hard I worked at it?” I twist up the napkin and whip it at him. He deflects it.…

— Carolyn Crane

“yelled, but Chuck was already off the box and running”

— James Dashner

The founder of Dell found ways of delivering Hewlett Packard's most profitable products for much lower prices but forgot to deliver their quality so…

— Max McKeown

I think my dad did legal work for someone who had a Packard Bell 8088, and they couldn't pay him, so they gave him…

— Jeremy Stoppelman

“The big change has been in the hardware/software cost ratio. The buyer of a $2-million machine in 1960 felt that he could afford $250,000…

— Frederick P. Brooks Jr

He [Steve Jobs] had come from the surplus electronics parts world.So he came from that world, and he said let's sell PC boards for…

— Steve Wozniak