Act Confident, Even When You're

When You Innovate, You've Got To Be Prepared For Everyone Telling You You're Nuts.

I Saw That We Needed To Grow But Our Top Line Wasn't Growing, So We Had To Find Other Ways To Grow The Business. We Had To Reshape Our Business And Acquire Share In A Non Conventional Way. But Most Tech Leaders Don't Come Out Of A Business Background. They Really Have A Parochial Point Of View. All They Know Are The Go-go Years Of Silicon Valley. That's The Environment In Which They Were Raised.

If An Innovative Piece Of Software Comes Along, Microsoft Copies It And Makes It Part Of Windows. This Is Not Innovation; This Is The End Of Innovation.

If I See Danny Hillis Quoted As An Expert On Mpp One More Time, I'm Going To Puke.

When You're The First Person Whose Beliefs Are Different From What Everyone Else Believes, You're Basically Saying, "i'm Right, And Everyone Else Is Wrong." That's A Very Unpleasant Position To Be In. It's At Once Exhilarating And At The Same Time An Invitation To Be Attacked.