I would say that hardware is the bone of the head, the skull. The semiconductor is the brain within the head. The software is the wisdom and data is the knowledge.

Jack's [Ma Yun ] theory is that whoever controls data controls the world.

I think I would have kept in contact with venture capital investors and entrepreneurs. I'm sure staying involved as something like a coach would be fun. If I handed over the reins to a successor, I wouldn't stick around [to pull strings] like a retired emperor.

I would say that hardware is the bone of the head, the skull. The semiconductor is the brain within the head. The software is the wisdom and data is the knowledge.

I'm a man, and I think every man wants to be No. 1.

If something happened, like engineers starting to quit, things would go downhill fast.

Whatever the country, whatever the culture, whatever the time, when you become a big enough organization, you start to collapse and slow down.