The biggest challenge is adding the bureaucracy it takes to run the company without becoming fat, lazy, inflexible - bureaucratic.
I don't subscribe to the idea that everything moves to the network. Theoretically it's possible that everybody will use little hand-held devices to access the Internet, but I expect more of a hybrid environment.
People are looking for more than a faster and faster PC. It has to do what they want. Will it fill some void, add some value, deliver something that they can't do previously at a price that people are willing to pay for?
Don't get me wrong; we have a great relationship with Intel going back over many, many years. But we're not a wholly-owned subsidiary. We can do our own thing.
Being a smaller, nimbler company is better for our customers, employees and shareholders.
We spend as much time looking at companies that are smaller than we are as we do at those that are bigger.
The first thing I got was a jet. And it's the last thing I'd get rid of if I go bankrupt.
People confuse me with Gateway.
Both Gateway and I are products of Sioux City.
I've used soap dishes as ashtrays in the best hotels in the world.
I'll end up living where I feel is the best place to raise my kids.
I'd be lying to you if I said I had not done some soul searching.
We never put any limitations on what Gateway could be. We had big dreams, big goals.
If all we wanted to do was to make money on PC hardware, that wouldn't be a good business model.
I'm not in favor of stealing music.
If you buy a CD and want to put your favorite songs on one CD, you should be able to do that.
The entertainment industry always chooses to fight things out through the courts and legislation. Technology people always think there's a business solution.
You know, growing up in the cattle business, I know a lot about cattle.
I definitely don't welcome takeover interests.
We like being an independent company. We do not need to merge or do anything different.
