More and more major businesses and industries are being run on software and delivered as online services - from movies to agriculture to national defense.

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

You only ever experience two emotions: euphoria and terror. And I find that lack of sleep enhances them both.

People tend to think of the web as a way to get information or perhaps as a place to carry out e-commerce. But really, the web is about accessing applications.

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.

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.

In short, software is eating the world