There's conflict in everything, just trying to buy a used car you deal with people that you don't want to deal with, you know, that's just the way of life, nothing stops changing, you're always going to have the conflict till your last breath, I mean on your deathbed, arguing with the doctor who's going to pay the bill, you know, it's just the reality of it, so none of that ever goes away.

People get upset and it becomes an excuse to treat other people a certain way,but if you really step back, you realize what you've left behind.

If you take different mythologies from different cultures, the names may change and the story lines may vary but there is always something in common.

I always knew that I wanted to be creative, that I wanted to create something

The trick is to use the drugs once to get there, and maybe spend the next ten years trying to get back there without the drug.

This sort of behavior is left to the psychotic, dogmatic, fundamentalist believers you see on your TV everyday letting off bombs and killing people in the name of God. Beliefs are dangerous. Beliefs allow the mind to stop functioning. A non-functioning mind is clinically dead. Believe in nothing.

Novell has the necessary resources to be a much more profitable enterprise but it currently lacks the vision, strategy and execution to produce respectable returns.