Lisa Su Quotes

People tend to look at processing power as how to gauge a piece of hardware is powerful for us.

I've always focused on technology and growth and don't have the core competency to do liability management - I'm a mechanical engineer.

Technical understanding should be a core competency of any company.

You have a core competency, something you're better at than I'll ever be, and that's your magic - your pixie dust.

We need business leaders who have a respect for technical issues even if they don't have technical backgrounds. In a lot of U.S. industries, including cars and even computers, many managers don't think of technology as a core competency, and this attitude leads them to farm out technical issues.

We live in a highly industrialized society and every member of the Black nation must be as academically and technologically developed as possible. To wage a revolution, we need competent teachers, doctors, nurses, electronics experts, chemists, biologists, physicists, political scientists, and so on and so forth. Black women sitting at home reading bedtime stories to their children are just not going to make it.

We have to have a special insight, or we'll put it in the 'too tough' basket. All of you have to look for a special area of competency and focus on that.

What always gives me peace of mind is that the best are the best. People who float to the top will always float to the top.

Caring is irrelevant. Desire to do good is irrelevant. All that counts is knowledge and results

I wouldn't give a performer something I couldn't deliver myself.

An excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent philosopher.

He can do most who has most power.

Learn to hide your need and show your skill.

Sure you can; the only question is whether you do it well.

An excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent philosopher. The society which scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy. Neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.

You have to get comfortable [with your work], you really have to know what you're doing, and it has to be almost boring to you to be able to do it well.

...I took Advanced PowerPoint last semester. You guys are always misunderestimating me. I'm totally ready to handle the big stuff.

I should never have made a good scientist, but I should have made a perfectly adequate one.

You can have all the capabilities; if you don't have the quality people, you don't have much.

Really do a job and do it well.

Let no youth have any anxiety about the upshot of his education, whatever the line of it may be. If he keep faithfully busy each hour of the working-day, he may safely leave the result to itself. He can with perfect certainty count on waking up some fine morning to find himself one of the competent ones of his generation.

Any outfit that can't figure out clean toilets and decent theming on its own can't benefit from my advice.

In the case of all other sciences, arts, skills, and crafts, everyone is convinced that a complex and laborious programme of learning and practice is necessary for competence. Yet when it comes to philosophy, there seems to be a currently prevailing prejudice to the effect that, although not everyone who has eyes and fingers, and is given leather and last, is at once in a position to make shoes, everyone nevertheless immediately understands how to philosophize.

I am not going to give you a number for it because it's not my business to do intelligent work.

An intellectual may be defined as a man who speaks with general authority about a subject on which he has no particular competence.