If you view computer designers as artists, they're really into more of an art form that can be mass-produced, like records, or like prints, than they are into fine arts. They want something where they can express themselves to a large number of people through their medium, and their medium is technology and manufacturing.

Be ready to catch the ball when it is thrown by life.

I know that living with me was not a bowl of cherries.

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.

We're just enthusiastic about what we do.

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.

Microsoft has had two goals in the last 10 years. One was to copy the Mac, and the other was to copy Lotus' success in the spreadsheet - basically, the applications business. And over the course of the last 10 years, Microsoft accomplished both of those goals. And now they are completely lost.