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.

Consumer electronics is a challenging one.

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.

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.

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.

Books?" Ridley looked disgusted. "Carry?

Without dreams, life is a desert.

It's not enough that you move through the world - you must change it to suit your expectations.

Take care of your body

Someone would have to be out of their mind not to come back to you. I walked through a blizzard to get here.

It's only when people get involved, when there's money involved, that you have a lot opinions around you. I try not to listen to them too much.

Nothing is really media driven or committee driven, so you can actually just produce something

I make sure I make a painting - that's my job. And I cook the Sunday dinner.

Everything proceeds from everything else and everything becomes everything, and everything can be turned into everything else.