Technology happens, it’s not good, it’s not bad. Is steel good or bad?
With all due respect to Microsoft and Intel, there is no substitute for being in the right place at the right time.
What kind of a society are we going to have if it consists of highly paid people doing high-value-added work – and masses of unemployed?
The Lesson is, we all need to expose ourselves to the winds of change.
Activity is not output.
I was glad I liked chemistry.
Only the paranoid survive.
I’m a great believer in particularly being alert to changes that change something, anything, by an order of magnitude, and nothing operates with the factors of 10 as profoundly as the Internet.
A fundamental rule in technology says that whatever can be done will be done.
Not all problems have a technological answer, but when they do, that is the more lasting solution.
How can you motivate yourself to continue to follow a leader when he appears to be going around in circles?
Competition is warfare. Mostly it is played by prescribed rules – there is a sort of Geneva Convention for competition – but it’s thorough and often brutal.
You have to pretend you’re 100 percent sure. You have to take action; you can’t hesitate or hedge your bets. Anything less will condemn your efforts to failure.
Detect and fix any problem in a production process at the lowest stage possible.
E-Commerce is happening the way all the hype said it would. Internet deployment is happening. Broadband is happening. Everything we ever said about the Internet is happening. And it is very, very early. We can’t even glimpse it’s potential in changing the way people work and live.
PCMCIA – People can’t memorize computer industries acronyms.
I don’t see Merced appearing on a mainstream desktop inside of a decade.
Congress will pass a law restricting public comment on the Internet to individuals who have spent a minimum of one hour actually accomplishing a specific task while on line.
Whatever success we have had in maintaining our culture has been instrumental in Intel’s success in surviving strategic inflection points.
If the world operates as one big market, every employee will compete with every person anywhere in the world who is capable of doing the same job. There are lots of them and many of them are hungry.