Accept that no matter where you go to work, you are not an employee you are a business with one employee, you. Nobody owes you a career. You own it, as a sole proprietor.

Technology happens, it's not good, it's not bad. Is steel good or bad?

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

So give me a turbulent world as opposed to a quiet world and I'll take the turbulent one.

There are two options: adapt or die.

The boom was healthy too, even with its excesses. Because what this incredible valuation craze did was draw untold sums of billions of dollars into building the Internet infrastructure. The hundreds of billions of dollars that got invested in telecommunications, for example.

You need just the right amount of ambition . . . If you have too little ambition, you don't push or work hard. If you have too much ambition, you put yourself ahead of others, elbow them out of your way.