It's not the tools that you have faith in - tools are just tools. They work, or they don't work. It's people you have faith in or not. Yeah, sure, I'm still optimistic I mean, I get pessimistic sometimes but not for long.

Great engineers are a huge multiplier.

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.

You've probably had somebody punch you in the stomach and it knocks the wind of you and you can't breathe. That's how I felt.

It's not like Windows users don't have any power. I think they are happy with Windows, and that's an incredibly depressing thought

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.

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