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

Start-ups should be based on radical ideas. There should be a high failure rate for start-ups, because if there isn't their ideas aren't bold enough.

Practically everyone is going to have a general purpose computer in their pocket, it's so easy to underestimate that, that has got to be the really, really big one.

In the next 10 years, I expect at least five billion people worldwide to own smartphones, giving every individual with such a phone instant access to the full power of the Internet, every moment of every day.

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

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

I think that every technology company that's more than 20 years old will break up