The 2 hardest things you'll have to do when running a company are recruiting and talking people out of leaving.

Companies in every industry need to assume that a software revolution is coming.

The days when a car aficionado could repair his or her own car are long past, due primarily to the high software content.

Ten to 20 years out, driving your car will be viewed as equivalently immoral as smoking cigarettes around other people is today.

Qualified software engineers, managers, marketers and salespeople in Silicon Valley can rack up dozens of high-paying, high-upside job offers any time they want, while national unemployment and underemployment is sky high

Out of ten swings at the bat, you get maybe seven strikeouts, two base hits, and if you are lucky, one home run. The base hits and the home runs pay for all the strikeouts

The good news is we had this idea of cloud computing. The bad news is we were 10 years too early.