The engineering is long gone in most PC companies. In the consumer electronics companies, they don't understand the software parts of it. And so you really can't make the products that you can make at Apple anywhere else right now. Apple's the only company that has everything under one roof.

I hate the way people use PowerPoints instead of thinking

You know, Dr. Edwin Land was a troublemaker. He dropped out of Harvard and founded Polaroid. Not only was he one of the great inventors of our time but, more important, he saw the intersection of art and science and business and built an organization to reflect that. Polaroid did that for some years, but eventually Dr. Land, one of those brilliant troublemakers, was asked to leave his own company - which is one of the dumbest things I've ever heard of.

Breakthrough is how to distinguish a leader and who followed

Recruiting is hard. It's just finding the needles in the haystack. You can't know enough in a one-hour interview.

Once IBM gains control of a market sector, they almost always stop innovation. They prevent innovation from happening.

Everyone here has the sense that right now is one of those moments when we are influencing the future.