My success, part of it certainly, is that I have focused in on a few things.

Success is a miserable teacher. It tempts intelligent people to believe they cannot lose. And it is an unreliable guide to the future.

Don’t tax my income, tax my consumption.

Exposure from a young age to the realities of the world is a super-big thing.

Software innovation, like almost every other kind of innovation, requires the ability to collaborate and share ideas with other people, and to sit down and talk with customers and get their feedback and understand their needs.

The typical project design time for a large company like IBM - and they keep track of this - is a little over four years.

I don't have a magic formula for prioritizing the world's problems.