When you're running a company, creating jobs is the last thing you want to. When you're running a company you want to employ as few people as possible, and yet you inadvertently create jobs.
Innovation makes the world go round. It brings prosperity and freedom.
I've screwed up and I've overcommitted and it's typical of me.
In seven to ten years video traffic on the Internet will exceed data and voice traffic combined.
The internet will catastrophically collapse in 1996.
Where visionaries can be good at persuasion, CEOs are good at wielding authority. Visionaries transcend organizations, resources, and current realities, while CEOs master them.
I saw that there are people who will connive against innovation. They're hostile to it. And that has shaped my behavior ever since.
My advice is never let a publicist call you a 'visionary.' I've hung out with the visionaries at the famed Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. I've been a successful Silicon Valley entrepreneur. I...