I believe in the value of paranoia. Business success contains the seeds of its own destruction. The more successful you are, the more people want a chunk of your business and then another chunk and then another until there is nothing left.

Make mistakes faster.

I don't see Merced appearing on a mainstream desktop inside of a decade.

Whatever success we have had in maintaining our culture has been instrumental in Intel's success in surviving strategic inflection points.

Girls don't think boys' games are too hard, they think they are stupid.

How can you motivate yourself to continue to follow a leader when he appears to be going around in circles?

There's a tendency at the senior and middle-manager level to be too big-picturish and too superficial. There is a phrase, "The devil is in the details." One can formulate brilliant global strategies whose executability is zero. It's only through familiarity with details - the capability of the individuals who have to execute, the marketplace, the timing - that a good strategy emerges. I like to work from details to big pictures.