When I was in graduate school in consumer science and math, all of the big companies had labs, all doing blue sky research. Sandra Lerner Read Quote
I think Google is a great company, and they’re doing really cool things. But they’re not doing things that are going to put us, I think, into the next generation of technology. Sandra Lerner Read Quote
Historically, if you look at people like George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, people with disposable incomes have always been agricultural innovators. Sandra Lerner Read Quote
My aunt looked like Lucille Ball, and everything she touched was beautiful and elegant. But I was intelligent enough to understand I would never be like her. Sandra Lerner Read Quote
I have a long attention span, and I am also a good scientist, and there are a lot of problems that remain in the organic agricultural movement that the government does not invest in solving. Sandra Lerner Read Quote
I always thought that if someone invested in your business, that meant he or she believed in it. Sandra Lerner Read Quote
What is good for you is not necessarily good for the company, and vice versa. Sandra Lerner Read Quote
At Cisco, I made every decision based on what was good for the company, and that pretty much ruined my marriage and my health. Sandra Lerner Read Quote
Social media is an information channel; it’s like radio or TV… In Cisco, we made a lot of money on public protocol. I think the social media model replicates that protocol. Sandra Lerner Read Quote
