I don't see Merced appearing on a mainstream desktop inside of a decade.

How well we communicate is determined not by how well we say things but how well we are understood.

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.

I think it is very important for you to do two things: act on your temporary conviction as if it was a real conviction; and when you realize that you are wrong, correct course very quickly.

Most companies don't die because they are wrong; they die because they don't commit themselves. They fritter away their momentum and their valuable resources while attempting to make a decision. The greatest danger is standing still.

With all due respect to Microsoft and Intel, there is no substitute for being in the right place at the right time.

Whatever success we have had in maintaining our culture has been instrumental in Intel's success in surviving strategic inflection points.

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.

There is at least one point in the history of any company when you have to change dramatically to rise to the next level of performance. Miss that moment -- and you start to decline.

I have been quoted saying that, in the future, all companies will be Internet companies. I still believe that. More than ever, really.

Not all problems have a technological answer, but when they do, that is the more lasting solution.

I was running an assembly line designed to build memory chips. I saw the microprocessor as a bloody nuisance.

You have no choice but to operate in a world shaped by globalization and the information revolution. There are two options: adapt or die.

The Internet doesn't change everything. It doesn't change supply and demand. It doesn't magically allow you to build businesses by turning investors' money into operating expenses indefinitely. The money always runs out eventually.. the Internet doesn't change that, as we have seen.

It's not enough to make time for your children. There are certain stages in their lives when you have to give them the time when they want it. You can't run your family like a company. It doesn't work.

I was glad I liked chemistry.

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.

How can you motivate yourself to continue to follow a leader when he appears to be going around in circles?

I've had a wonderful life. What people are going to write about me 10 years after I'm dead -- who cares?

Let chaos reign, then rein in chaos.