Thiago Silva Quotes

My dad worked in the IT industry, although I haven't got a clue what he did. He always tells me but it just goes over my head.

It would be nice to have radio support, not that we've ever had that much trouble with it.

The only problem was that I couldn't communicate with Dario. He speaks Italian and I don't. We had a translator the whole time. I just felt that something was lost with the go between. He was a delightful man, but I wish we could have spoken the same language.

If something doesn't work in my house - TV, phone, stereo, anything - I just call my dad, and he knows the answer.

The guy who knows about computers is the last person you want to have creating documentation for people who don't understand computers.

So if you're a customer today, the same person who came in to demonstrate the technology for you and helped you architect the solution before you bought it is likely going to be leading the team to help you do the implementation.

I have been a systems engineer, systems administrator, a senior adviser for the Central Intelligence Agency, a solutions consultant and a telecommunications information systems officer.

Change does not mean you will win with a new coach and achieve victories, but rather it causes instability in the team as the new coach needs some time for the players to adapt his new plans, which are always different than the previous coach.

Any new coach takes about six months to adjust to the system, and players also need time to understand his methods.

Sometimes a new coach can find it not easy.

When you change 10 out of 22 outfield players, you need time and hard work.

It's normal to have early difficulties when you get a new manager with a new concept.

It's not what you tell your players that counts. It's what they hear.

Any time you have coaching changes and things like that, you go and study everything.

I am here to fix the problem with yer pheaun.

Hardware: where the people in your company's software section will tell you the problem is. Software: where the people in your company's hardware section will tell you the problem is.

Endless conflicts. Endless misunderstanding. All life is that. Great and little cannot understand one another.

It is strange how the elderly fall silent when they ought to go on speaking, obliging the young to learn everything from scratch.

You who read me, are You sure of understanding my language?

Obviously, it has taken time to work with the players around me and with so many new faces coming in the summer, in a way it's been more difficult.

Sarcasm creates a chasm between yourself and others.

The most basic barrier was language itself, very few Americans in Iraq whether soldiers or diplomats or news paper reporters could speak more than a few words of Arabic. A remarkable number of them didn't even have translators. That meant for many Iraqis the typical 19 year old army corporal from South Dakota was not a youthful innocent carrying Americas good will, he was a terrifying combination of firepower and ignorance.

The most important people is to pick people who like to write software and who are good at... good developers like working with each other. And they... they reinforce each other's skills.

If my people look as if they're in a dreadful fix, it's because I can't get them out of a technical dilemma.

Leadership deals with people and their dynamics, which are continually changing. The challenge of leadership is to create change and facilitate growth.