Rule 1: All rules can be broken. Many (ex-legal and ethical) should be. Most people won't.

Great CEOs are not just born with shiny hair and a tie.

I love what the Valley does. I love company building. I love startups. I love technology companies. I love new technology. I love this process of invention. Being able to participate in that as a founder and a product creator, or as an investor or a board member, I just find that hugely satisfying.

There's no such thing as the middle class. It's absolutely vanishing.

The advantage of the consumer businesses is they tend to be much broader-based, much larger number of customers, that tend to over time be a lot more predictable. The advantage of the enterprise companies is they are not as subject to consumer trend, fad, behavior.

These days, you have the option of staying home, blogging in your underwear, and not having your words mangled. I think I like the direction things are headed.

The multipurpose device will always fail.