If people don't think the odds are against you, you're doing it wrong.

Any time where the delta b/w what is possible and how things work today is at its widest, that's an opportunity to go build new technology.

Better to be too early and have to try again, than be too late and have to catch up.

I'm certainly not into money and prestige. For me there is simply nothing more exciting than people involved in the creation of great products. That is what drives me.

In an IT lead world, incumbents generally win because they have the existing relationship with the IT organization.

My downtime tends to resemble my uptime. Weekends are workdays, but toned down. Over the whole weekend, I may have five meetings, as opposed to six on a weekday. I used to play piano for 30 minutes at night, but I had to pull that out of my schedule. I don't have time for nonwork stuff.

We're going from a world of customized software to standardized platforms.