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

There's always more demands than there's time to meet them, so it's constantly a matter of trying to balance them

Whatever you're selling, storage or networking or security, you're going head to head with the incumbent players.

If I want to get work done, that's usually about 3 in the morning.

There was a point in the late '90s where all the graduating M.B.A.'s wanted to start companies in Silicon Valley, and for the most part they were not actually qualified to do it.

People are so bad at driving cars that computers don't have to be that good to be much better. Any time you stand in line at the D.M.V. and look around, you're like, 'Oh, my God, I wish all these people were replaced by computer drivers.'

Newspapers with declining circulations can complain all they want about their readers and even say they have no taste. But you will still go out of business over time. A newspaper is not a public trust - it has a business model that either works or it doesn't.