The way that Wall Street works is most people like very steady quarterly earnings, and they like to be very popular instead of unpopular and they don't like to be the nail that sticks up, as they say.

You have to give credit where credit's due. Steve [Jobs] has been probably the single hardware/software forward-looking thinker and executor in our lifetime as an individual. He's quite a brilliant innovator.

The way that Wall Street works is most people like very steady quarterly earnings, and they like to be very popular instead of unpopular and they don't like to be the nail that sticks up, as they say.

What most people don't understand about failure in innovation is that it's an investment. It's actually an investment in experience.

The Galvins like to think about certain things that most people think are impossible, and then we like to engage a process to try to make them possible.

While we very much regret the impact this will have on certain employees, we must adjust our production capacity to the reality of current business conditions and reduce costs to improve overall financial performance.

If you want to be an innovator, you have to take risks. And sometimes things work and sometimes they don't work.