Our goal is to leverage what is already out in the field in terms of partners, but then hire in project management capability and a bit of technical capability.

Consumer electronics is a challenging one.

You cannot have companies where many of the largest ones lose money indefinitely without someone finally waving the white flag, and IBM is the most recent example of that.

Everyone wants to talk about it, and right now music, flat-panel televisions, a whole host of new handheld devices are fun to talk about and very exciting to look at.

When I was growing up there was a product made by Sony called the Sony Walkman - a rage, everyone had to have one. Well, you don't hear about the Walkman anymore.

I'm the one who made many of the bold comments that we'd seen the technologies from AMD as pretty good. Their technology in many areas was leading. But those are transient.

Most of the services staff is for the larger corporations, not so much for small and medium businesses because they cannot afford an extensive services army.

We all have many opportunities, but limited capacity to pursue them. Make choices, focus your time and energy, so that you can submit your share of masterpieces to the greater good.

We are seeing a steady improvement in corporate demand. I think it's going to be steady, not explosive, throughout the year.

What we learned several years ago was that one of our weaknesses would be if we didn't develop enough people with the know-how to run our company, it would come to the point where we would just stop.

In the enterprise, the trend is towards smaller, more powerful standardized systems where Dell is uniquely positioned.

Money can merely buy/acquire/get you what is already available. Without it one has an unlimited opportunity to innovate and create anything,

Avarice is as destitute of what it has as poverty is of what it has not.

The only thing we know about the future is that it will be faster changing and more unpredictable than the present.

The fact of the attempted suicide by Augusto Martinez was explained in a concise and exact form by our government in a communique. There is absolutely nothing else to add.

It's brilliant to get recognition. The CFDA was magic because it's such a big award in our industry. There's nothing more flattering than being honored by your peers.

Although talent feels and looks predestined, in fact we have a good deal of control over what skills we develop, and we have more potential than we might ever presume to guess.

What you do is take the power [popularity] gives you - which is very temporary and minor but significant - and use it. The danger is that you use it on a vanity project that no one wants to watch.

The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.

I think theres something strangely musical about noise.

I've seen looks before that have literally taken my breath away - like someone on the red carpet and it's just like I can't even breathe, like you get some type of amazing anxiety.