Game-playing is more fun when it's virtual because you're more successful. ... in reality, only one person gets to be LeBron.
I'd rather be a big fish in a specialized pond than a little, little fish in a more generalized big pond.
The reason I've been able to maintain my position of chairman of CBS in addition to all the Viacom stuff is my team.
It was acting, and WWE is the longest-running weekly episodic program in television. Sure, there are story lines that are better than others.
If one knows only what one is told, one does not know enough to be able to arrive at a well-balanced decision.
Objects are what matter. Only they carry the evidence that throughout the centuries something really happened among human beings.
There was a point in the late '90s where all the graduating M.B.A.'s wanted to start companies in Silicon Valley, and for the most part they were not actually qualified to do it.
So I came from an environment where I was starved for information, starved for connection.
It's through curiosity and looking at opportunities in new ways that we've always mapped our path at Dell. There's always an opportunity to make a difference.
A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment.
Look at Microsoft, Google, and Facebook. They have all entered many sectors, and actually, in many of those sectors, they weren't as early as Tencent.
All of our code is open source, so it can be used for other projects.
Both VisiCalc and MultiPlan were available when the IBM PC shipped in October 1981. 1-2-3 didn't hit the market until January 1983.
Failing to continue to support the public higher-ed system in California will have devastating long-term consequences.
If you go back to the '50s and '60s... there was zero tech in S.F. It was all in the Valley... and it crept northward in early 2000s.
On a personal note, I was born in Brooklyn. My folks moved out to Long Island when I was quite young, but once a Brooklynite, always a Brooklynite.
Old ways of thinking die hard, particularly when they were weaned by legally enforced monopolies.
If I see what you're up to on Facebook but I don't see your updates on Flickr, I'll still care about Facebook.
Simplicity can have a negative impact when it's the crude reduction of nuances beyond appreciation: a Matisse presented as a 16-color GIF.
When you look at things like Flickr and Youtube, they are specialised blogging systems, so why hasn't blogging encompassed that ease of functionality?
People might start with LiveJournal or Blogger, but if they get serious, they'll graduate to WordPress. We try to cater to the more powerful users.
