As I look forward, I'm very optimistic about the things I see ahead.

DOS is ugly and interferes with users' experience.

Most of our competitors were one-product wonders... They would do their one product, but never get their engineering sorted out.

I have a nice office. I have a nice house... So I'm not denying myself some great things. I just don't happen to have expensive hobbies.

This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50.

The barrier to change is not too little caring; it is too much complexity. To turn caring into action, we need to see a problem, see a solution, and see the impact. But complexity blocks all three steps.

I remember in 1980 or 1981 looking at a list of people who had made a lot of money in the computer industry and thinking, Wow, that's amazing. But I never thought I'd be on that list. It's clear I was wrong. I'm on the list, at least temporarily.