The best decision is the right decision. The next best decision is the wrong decision. The worst decision is no decision.

Technology has the shelf life of a banana.

We believe we're moving out of the Ice Age, the Iron Age, the Industrial Age, the Information Age, to the participation age. You get on the Net and you do stuff. You IM (instant message), you blog, you take pictures, you publish, you podcast, you transact, you distance learn, you telemedicine. You are participating on the Internet, not just viewing stuff. We build the infrastructure that goes in the data center that facilitates the participation age. We build that big friggin' Webtone switch. It has security, directory, identity, privacy, storage, compute, the whole Web services stack.

Microsoft is now talking about the digital nervous system... I guess I would be nervous if my system was built on their technology too.

Without choice, you have no innovation. Without innovation, you have nothing.

If everyone thinks you're doing the right thing, then everyone would be doing it. Have a controversial strategy.

This is a big deal. It's a fairly natural partnership; it shouldn't surprise people, ... We're working on bringing this network-is-the-computer, Net services environment.