Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.
Only the paranoid survive.
There are so many people working so hard and achieving so little.
Privacy is one of the biggest problems in this new electronic age.
There is at least one point in the history of any company when you have to change dramatically to rise to the next level of performance. Miss that moment - and you start to decline.
So give me a turbulent world as opposed to a quiet world and I'll take the turbulent one.
Leaders have to act more quickly today. The pressure comes much faster.
Just as we could have rode into the sunset, along came the Internet, and it tripled the significance of the PC.
I have been quoted saying that, in the future, all companies will be Internet companies. I still believe that. More than ever, really.
If the world operates as one big market, every employee will compete with every person anywhere in the world who is capable of doing the same job. There are lots of them and many of them are hungry.
When a change in how some element of one's business is conducted becomes an order of magnitude larger than what that business is accustomed to, then all bets are off.
I was running an assembly line designed to build memory chips. I saw the microprocessor as a bloody nuisance.
I really don't have much respect for the people who live their lives motivated by an exit strategy existing, being performed. There was no option that we were trained in that says, 'If it gets too hard, get up and leave.'
Pickups, S.U.V.'s, vans and the like represent about 80 million vehicles, with mileage of perhaps 13 to 16 miles per gallon. Converting those should be our first priority.
A career in journalism suddenly lost its appeal.
Not all problems have a technological answer, but when they do, that is the more lasting solution.
I was glad I liked chemistry.
The Internet doesn't change everything. It doesn't change supply and demand.
Congress will pass a law restricting public comment on the Internet to individuals who have spent a minimum of one hour actually accomplishing a specific task while on line.
I've had a wonderful life. What people are going to write about me 10 years after I'm dead - who cares?
