I don't see Merced appearing on a mainstream desktop inside of a decade.

Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.

There is at least one point in the history of any company when you have to change dramatically to rise to the next level of performance. Miss that moment - and you start to decline.

Leaders have to act more quickly today. The pressure comes much faster.

A corporation is a living organism; it has to continue to shed its skin. Methods have to change. Focus has to change. Values have to change. The sum total of those changes is transformation.

How well we communicate is determined not by how well we say things but how well we are understood.

You have to understand what it is that you are better at than anybody else and mercilessly focus your efforts on it.

Bad companies are destroyed by crisis, Good companies survive them, Great companies are improved by them.

Just as we could have rode into the sunset, along came the Internet, and it tripled the significance of the PC.

If the brutal facts are not faced by leaders, the brutal reality sets in.

The worse the news, the more effort should go into communicating it.

Non so per quale motivo, ma con lui mi escono dalla bocca tutti i pensieri che tengo rinchiusi nel mio cervello.

When you are insane, you are busy being insane - all the time.

You can realign people's physical chemistry with sound.

It's not enough to be tolerant...now we're finally moving towards the idea of acceptance.

Revolutionaries are rarely motivated primarily by material considerations-though the illusion that they are persists in the West.

Infinity is just time on an ego trip.

I was inspired by [Michelangelo] Antonioni's Red Desert - very big and moody.

Cancer is the growth of madness denied.

A cat, after being scolded, goes about its business. A dog slinks off into a corner and pretends to be doing a serious self-reappraisal.

What we found out with Katrina is that the country is still unable to deal with disaster. God forbid this happens in San Francisco.