Let Them Know Precisely What You Are

[my Teacher] Basically Bribed Me Back Into Learning With Candy And Money And What Was Really Remarkable Was Before Very Long I Had Such A Respect For Her That It Sort Of Re-ignited My Desire To Learn.

Microsoft Has Had Two Goals In The Last 10 Years. One Was To Copy The Mac, And The Other Was To Copy Lotus' Success In The Spreadsheet - Basically, The Applications Business. And Over The Course Of The Last 10 Years, Microsoft Accomplished Both Of Those Goals. And Now They Are Completely Lost.

Follow Your Heart, But Check It With Your Head.

The Most Corrosive Piece Of Technology That I've Ever Seen Is Called Television - But Then, Again, Television, At Its Best, Is Magnificent.

You've Got To Start With The Customer Experience And Work Backwards To The Technology. You Can't Start With The Technology And Try To Figure Out Where You're Going To Sell It.