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

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

Think about it. Right now, a whole generation of young (customers) in the United States has been brought up to take computers for granted. Pointing a mouse is no more mysterious to them than hitting the "on" button on the television is to their parents.

The worse the news, the more effort should go into communicating it.

Competition is warfare. Mostly it is played by prescribed rules--there is a sort of Geneva Convention for competition--but it's thorough and often brutal.

You need to plan the way a fire department plans: it cannot anticipate where the next fire will be, so it has to shape an energetic and efficient team that is capable of responding to the unanticipated as well as to any ordinary event.

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