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The American Presidency Project
George Bush
41st President of the United States: 1989 ‐ 1993
Remarks at the Presentation Ceremony for the American Success Awards
September 11, 1989
And there's an old saying: The more things change, the more things stay the same.
"Return To Tomorrow" [ Star Trek ]
Original Airdate: Feb 9, 1968
(from internet transcript)
Captain's Log. Stardate 4768.3. The Enterprise is in orbit above a planet whose surface, our sensors tell us, is devoid of all life, a world destroyed and dead for at least a half million years. Yet from it comes a voice, the energy of pure thought, telling us something has survived here for those thousands of centuries.
[Bridge]
KIRK: (dictating log) Since exploration and contact with alien intelligences is our primary mission, I've decided to risk the potential dangers and resume contact. Log entry out. How long before Starfleet receives that?
UHURA: Over three weeks at this distance, sir.
SPOCK: Captain.
KIRK: Got something?
SPOCK: Sensors registering some form of energy deep inside the planet.
SARGON: Your probes have touched me, Mister Spock.
SPOCK: Reading energy only, Captain. No life forms.
SARGON: I have locked your transporter device on my co-ordinates. Please come to us. Rescue us from oblivion.
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Fortune
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella reveals the 5 AI prompts he uses that can ‘supercharge your everyday workflow’
Preston Fore
Tue, September 2, 2025 at 8:26 AM PDT
Nadella’s secret prompts that “supercharge” his workflow
In a LinkedIn post, Nadella said AI’s recent developments have added a “new layer of intelligence” across all his apps.
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The Simpsons
Homer the Smithers
Quotes
Waylon Smithers: I've got to find a replacement who won't outshine me. Perhaps if I search the employee evaluations for the word "incompetent".
Computer: 714 matches found.
Waylon Smithers: 714 names? Huh, better be more specific. "Lazy... clumsy... dim-witted... monstrously ugly".
[typing]
Computer: 714 matches found.
Waylon Smithers: Ah, nuts to this! I'll just go and get Homer Simpson.
"Return To Tomorrow" [ Star Trek ]
Original Airdate: Feb 9, 1968
SPOCK: Captain, I do wish to inspect whatever this is that lived that long ago.
KIRK: And I would like to have my science officer with me on something as unusual as this, but it is full of unknowns and we can't risk both of us being off the ship.
(The lights go out.)
SULU: All power gone, sir.
KIRK: On the other hand, perhaps this Sargon would like you to come with us.
(Power is restored.)
SPOCK: Fascinating.
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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella reveals the 5 AI prompts he uses that can ‘supercharge your everyday workflow’
Preston Fore
Tue, September 2, 2025 at 8:26 AM PDT
Here are the five prompts he said can “supercharge your everyday workflow”:
“Based on my prior interactions with [/person], give me 5 things likely top of mind for our next meeting.”
“Draft a project update based on emails, chats, and all meetings in [/series]: KPIs vs. targets, wins/losses, risks, competitive moves, plus likely tough questions and answers.”
“Are we on track for the [Product] launch in November? Check eng progress, pilot program results, risks. Give me a probability.”
“Review my calendar and email from the last month and create 5 to 7 buckets for projects I spend most time on, with % of time spent and short descriptions.”
“Review [/select email] + prep me for the next meeting in [/series], based on past manager and team discussions.”
Fortune reached out to Nadella for comment.
How other top CEOs are using AI
AI has become part of the daily routine of many top business executives, especially in the world of tech. Nvidia’s Jensen Huang said he’s an active user of both Perplexity and ChatGPT, using it primarily as a learning and research tool.
"Return To Tomorrow" [ Star Trek ]
Original Airdate: Feb 9, 1968
SARGON: A struggle for such goals and the unleashing of such power that you could not comprehend.
KIRK: Then perhaps your intelligence wasn't so great, Sargon. We faced a similar crisis in our early nuclear age. We found the wisdom not to destroy ourselves.
SARGON: And we survived our primitive nuclear era, my son. But there comes to all races an ultimate crisis which you have yet to face.
KIRK: I don't understand.
SARGON: One day our minds became so powerful, we dared think of ourselves as gods.
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Fortune
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella reveals the 5 AI prompts he uses that can ‘supercharge your everyday workflow’
Preston Fore
Tue, September 2, 2025 at 8:26 AM PDT
As AI guts the need for Gen Z’s entry-level jobs, workers are racing against time to stay ahead of the curve and not be next on the chopping block.
But these fears aren’t just among mid-level management, they’re extending all the way to the C-suite: In fact, over three-fourths of all U.S. CEOs are afraid of losing their jobs, according to a survey conducted by Harris Poll on behalf of Dataiku earlier this year.
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Mark Hanrahan: A.I. did it! Squawk! A.I. did it! Squawk!
Me: Is that guy a retard, or what?
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Fortune
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella reveals the 5 AI prompts he uses that can ‘supercharge your everyday workflow’
Preston Fore
Tue, September 2, 2025 at 8:26 AM PDT
While those at the bottom of the corporate ladder—Gen Z—are being pummeled by AI, CEOs are embracing the technology. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella now says GPT-5 on Copilot has become part of his “everyday workflow” and has brought a new layer of intelligence to his productivity. In a LinkedIn post, the Gen Xer revealed his top five prompts that are helping drive success at the $3.7 trillion tech giant.
"Homer the Smithers" [ The Simpsons ]
Original Airdate in N.A.: 25-Feb-96
Later that day...
Burns: [from his office] Simpson? Simpson? [walks into Smithers' office] Did you get that report on the accounting department?
Homer: Yes sir, I did. [reads] "The accounting department is located on the 3rd floor. Its hours are 9am to 5pm. The head of this department is a Mr. Johnson or Johnstone."
Yet a little later...
Homer: Here are your messages:
"You have 30 minutes to move your car",
"You have 10 minutes",
"Your car has been impounded",
"Your car has been crushed into a cube",
"You have 30 minutes to move your cube".
[phone ringing]
Homer: [answers] Yello, Mr. Burns' office.
Burns: Is it about my cube?
"Return To Tomorrow" [ Star Trek ]
Original Airdate: Feb 9, 1968
(There are a group of boxes on the wall, containing spheres. Only two are alight.)
KIRK: Even for us, a half million years is almost too long to wait. Two others still survive. Henoch and Thalassa. Thalassa, my Thalassa. I am pleased you survived with me. Forgive me. It has been so very long.
SPOCK: When the struggle came which devastated your planet
KIRK: Only the best minds were chosen to survive. Thalassa, my wife, as you may have guessed. Henoch, from the other side. Realising our mistake, we attempted to perpetuate both sides. We built this chamber here in order to preserve our essence in this fashion.
SPOCK: Fascinating.
KIRK: We knew the seed that we had planted on other planets would take root, that one day you would build vessels as we did, and one day you would come here.
SPOCK: These others, they were stored differently than you, but it was your task to remain in the receptacle out there
KIRK: and search the heavens with my mind, probing, waiting, probing. And then one day my mind touched your vessel and brought you here.
MULHALL: So you could steal our bodies from us?
KIRK: To steal? To take them from you? No, no, my children, you misunderstand. We mean only that you should lend us your bodies for a short time.
MCCOY: And destroy them, just as you're burning that one up now. Heartbeat's two hundred and sixty two, Spock. Entire metabolic rate correspondingly high.
KIRK: I will return your captain to you before the body limit has been reached.
SPOCK: Our bodies, Sargon, for what purpose?
KIRK: To build. To build humanoid robots. We must borrow your bodies long enough to have the use of your hands, your fingers.
SPOCK: Then you intend to construct mechanical bodies, move your minds into them, and then return our bodies to us.
MULHALL: We have engineers, technicians. Why can't they build your robots for you?
KIRK: No. Our methods, our skills are far beyond your abilities.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Francis_Lucas
From 6/5/1987 ( as me, Kerry Burgess, my official enlisted US Navy documents includes: Earned NEC 1189 - Based on graduation from the Terrier Mk 152 Guided-missiles Fire Control Computers Complex course - Naval Guided Missiles School, Dam Neck, Virginia Beach, Virginia, US Navy - leading to permanent assignment until 1990 to CF-division, Missile Plot - guided-missiles Fire Control Computers Complex (UNIVAC digital-computers Mk152 Terrier System for, primarily, SM2-ER {Extended Range} Standard Missiles ordnance), USS Wainwright CG-28, US Navy, while enlisted paygrade E-5, designated Fire Controlman Petty Officer Second Class (FC2) ) To 9/11/1989 ( ) is 829 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 2/9/1968 ( premiere USA TV series episode "Star Trek"::"Return to Tomorrow" ) is 829 days
From 1/11/1962 ( premiere USA TV series episode "Hazel"::"A Replacement for Phoebe" ) To 11/20/1985 ( as Kerry Burgess my official enlisted US Navy documents includes: advancement from US Navy enlisted paygrade E-3 (undesignated) to E-4 - Fire Controlman Petty Officer Third Class (FC3) - US Navy fleet warship weapons-control - USS Taylor FFG-50, US Navy ) is 8714 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 9/11/1989 ( ) is 8714 days
From 1/11/1962 ( premiere USA TV series episode "Hazel"::"A Replacement for Phoebe" ) To 11/20/1985 ( with no meaningful contribution from Bill Gates to that product or any other product, past or future, debut Microsoft Windows 1.0 ) is 8714 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 9/11/1989 ( ) is 8714 days
From 8/13/1982 ( premiere USA film "Fast Times At Ridgemont High" ) To 9/11/1989 ( ) is 2586 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 12/1/1972 ( from The Daily Princetonian publication, Princeton University: Pygmalion ) is 2586 days
From 9/2/1921 ( Anthony Francis Lucas dead ) To 5/21/1969 ( the Princeton University doctor of medicine degree graduation of my biological brother Dr Thomas Reagan MD and the 1973 law-doctorate graduate of University of Oxford, England ) is 17428 days
17428 = 8714 + 8714
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 9/11/1989 ( ) is 8714 days
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/remarks-the-presentation-ceremony-for-the-american-success-awards
The American Presidency Project
George Bush
41st President of the United States: 1989 ‐ 1993
Remarks at the Presentation Ceremony for the American Success Awards
September 11, 1989
It's a great pleasure to see you here, and I certainly want to welcome Senator Kassebaum. I don't know what happened to Senator Orrin Hatch, but I expect he'll make the dramatic entrance any minute now. [Laughter] But thank you so much for coming.
My thanks to Michael Farley, Chairman of the National Council on Vocational Education, for all his hard work. And there's an old saying: The more things change, the more things stay the same. Well, today I'm going to talk about our rapidly changing work force and the simple, proven ways America is preparing for the future.
You know, during the administration of Abraham Lincoln, the Government made a strong commitment to what most people now consider a current idea: vocational-technical education. And by establishing the land grant colleges -- the agricultural and mechanical, or A&M schools -- Lincoln ensured that American workers were on the cutting edge of the new technologies. Well, that sounds familiar, and since the days of Lincoln, America has been concerned with competitiveness in the world marketplace of technology.
Lately, there's a bad rumor going around that the work ethic is dead. And I don't believe that's true, not when so many of the best new jobs in the Nation are going to Americans educated in vocational-technical schools. It sounds to me like the work ethic is alive and well. And it's going to stay that way. Eighteen of the twenty fastest growing occupations within the next decade require vocational-technical education, and jobs for technicians will grow 38 percent by the year 2000 -- the fastest of any major occupational group.
You know, there are dramatic changes in the Nation's work force, changes that point to a brighter future for our young people. Take, for example, the fact that our population is growing much more slowly now that the baby boom is over, the same time that we're creating a record number of new jobs. The bottom line in the year 2000 -- and this is a statistic that really is staggering -- in the year 2000, every person who wants a job will have one if they have the skills. And that's where you all come in.
All across America, some 26,000 vocational-technical education institutions provide 16 million Americans with marketable skills in over 150 occupations. These students will be the high-tech computer programmers and operators, equipment assemblers, and communications specialists who stand at the cutting edge of our economy. As we rely more and more on automation in our industries, employers will be looking for smart workers who can communicate and solve problems, from monitoring production rates to repairing robots, and people who are skilled on the production line and who know how to get things done, and craftsmen such as computer programmers and electrical engineers, and practical nurses, who keep our economy going strong.
Let's look at some of the benefits of vo-tech education: marketable graduates and lower unemployment. For example, one study found that graduates of Ohio vocational education programs earn 21 percent more money 4 years after graduation than high school graduates without this training. And unemployment is lower for vo-tech graduates than for those in the general work force who are the same age and have the same number of years of schooling. But even beyond the numbers, when vo-tech education can help young Americans get a better start in life, then the whole country benefits.
And here's another benefit: improved learning skills. Job training and academics are not contradictory; actually, many people learn academic subjects better in the context of how to use them on a job. Students in a vo-tech school taking a "Principles of Technology" course will learn about thermal resistance not from a lab experience with beakers and test tubes but from working the insulation in a house. Vo-tech schools are leading the way in educational improvement and applied academics.
The partnerships that community colleges and vo-tech institutes have formed with businesses to provide retraining and skills for employees are essential. There are now 23 million adults who receive retraining through vo-tech programs, which allow them to get new or better jobs. The reality of lifelong learning has arrived. We call it career ladder opportunities, the kind of education that builds bridges between vocational education and higher education. It's the kind of education that puts more and more Americans on the ladder to success.
Building a world-class work force, then, must be a national priority. Improving America's capacity to educate and train workers is critical to the future of this country. And that's why today we're presenting to you -- not all of you, some of you -- the American Success Awards. You have become American success stories through your involvement in vocational-technical education, and you're building a better America every day. Each of you has lived the American dream, and each one of you deserves our congratulations and thanks for your work in vocational - technical education.
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