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.

Just as we could have rode into the sunset, along came the Internet, and it tripled the significance of the PC.

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

The new environment dictates two rules: first, everything happens faster; second, anything that can be done will be done, if not by you, then by someone else, somewhere.

Growth is kinda built into everyone's genes. It's built into management's genes, the salesman's genes, the investors' desires. People expect companies to grow.

Every generation thinks that they invented sex.

Activity is not output.