Today's leading real-world retailer, Wal-Mart, uses software to power its logistics and distribution capabilities, which it has used to crush its competition

The most important thing is to get on the right horse.

So I came from an environment where I was starved for information, starved for connection.

The great companies get built by their founders

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

Any new technology tends to go through a 25-year adoption cycle.

People who tell computers what to do, and people who are told by computers what to do.