In the camera business, you won't survive if you don't innovate. In the guitar business you may or may not. The guitars being sold were designed between '48 and '59, Gibson SGs in '61.

I'm pretty good at letting people do what they are good at, that's why they're experts.

Somebody's going to wake up and their job in life is going to be to make guitars. There are a lot of good, talented people.

I don't see any rock stars playing an electric guitar from some new maker like you see in the acoustic guitar world.

I have my own hard earned money and if I buy a fly rod I'm going to give my money to the company that's giving me value. I'm going to the guy who gives me my money's worth.

There are times when product is more important than people and sometimes the people are more important than the product.

People by themselves can be pretty stupid. People working together can be very powerful.

I see money as a reflection of how much impact you're having on the world. I see money as a metaphor in a way.

Nobody gives twenty-five million dollars to anybody if they're not getting twenty-five million worth out of it. Forget it. It just doesn't happen.

The best book on programming for the layman is Alice in Wonderland, but that's because it's the best book on anything for the layman.

I am a Cajun Baby in a Texas girl, an all-American woman and a global goddess.

You are down in the valley and the valley is filled with smog. You can't see too well. When we meditate, we are going beyond the smog to the top of the mountain.

As I review my life, I feel I must have missed the point, either then or now.

I hate those e-books. They can not be the future... they may well be... I will be dead.

life is crap but, every day is an experience

Real chessplayers think about chess more or less 24 hours a day. It is a passion and a fate that one has to live with - and it lasts a lifetime.

The people who really run organizations are usually found several levels down, where it is still possible to get things done.

I've always been a generous and a kind person and so on, but never, ever have I experienced that kind of love. The world just looked different to me and still does.

Minds like beds always made up (more stony than a shore) unwilling or unable.