It places value on experience versus intellectual understanding. I saw a lot of people contemplating things but it didn't seem to lead to too many places. I got very interested in people who had discovered something more significant than an intellectual, abstract understanding.

When companies get bigger they try to replicate their success. But they assume their magic came from process. They try to use processes to substitute content.

You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.

Great engineers are a huge multiplier.

I can help the next generation remember the lineage of great companies here and how to continue the tradition. The Valley has been very supportive of me. I should do my best to repay.

For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through.

It's very simple: The more successful you are, the more you'll earn. But if you're not successful, you will not earn a dime.