The transformation of Apple is probably the biggest tech story of the last 15 years.

When you're dealing with machines or anything that you build, it either works or it doesn't, no matter how good of a salesman you are.

In a startup, absolutely nothing happens unless you make it happen.

I would say the consumer Internet companies - in a lot of ways, if you go inside the consumer Internet companies and you see how they run, it's how all their businesses are going to run.

If the Net becomes the center of the universe, which is what seems to be happening, then the dizzying array of machines that will be plugged into it will virtually guarantee that the specifics of which chip and which operating system you've got will be irrelevant.

Skype has a great engineering team, which I like to describe as 'all of Estonia.'

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