No system in the world is so well-designed that it can't grow stale, rigid, or corrupted by those who benefit most from it.

No system in the world is so well-designed that it can't grow stale, rigid, or corrupted by those who benefit most from it.

I've seen disgusting excess in business, and I've seen disgusting excess in Washington. But at the same time, I've certainly learned that Washington matters and that you can't ignore it, especially when you get into telecom.

I joined the board of the Santa Fe Institute.

The inner sort of consumer identity got the best of people. And everybody just wants things for free. And that's created this strange kind of cheapness to everything, where everything becomes throwaway. And people, I think, have started to undervalue things, maybe because there's too much, maybe because it's too easy to make, but I think mostly just because, somehow, that's the pattern that got set. And I think that's regrettable.

Dyson's Law: Do ask; don't lie.

From the business point of view—not to overstate it—intellectual property is dead; long live intellectual process. Long live service; long live performance.