In low-income countries, the main problems you have is infectious diseases.

Like a human being, a company has to have an internal communication mechanism, a "nervous system", to coordinate its actions.

The current information revolution is a cultural revolution, a social revolution, a thoroughgoing technological revolution that involves not just information, but labor, leisure, entertainment, communication, education, culture and thus is part of a major cultural and social shift.

Personal computing today is a rich ecosystem encompassing massive PC-based data centers, notebook and Tablet PCs, handheld devices, and smart cell phones. It has expanded from the desktop and the data center to wherever people need it - at their desks, in a meeting, on the road or even in the air.

You don't go to other books and take little pieces because although say a romantic scene may have been many times before all the details of who it is, where it is, are so intertwined in that text that it's easier to write it from scratch.

When you are failing, you are forced to be creative, to dig deep and think, night and day.

You always overestimate what you can get done in a year and underestimate what you can get done in 10 years.