Consumer electronics is a challenging one.

You cannot have companies where many of the largest ones lose money indefinitely without someone finally waving the white flag, and IBM is the most recent example of that.

Everyone wants to talk about it, and right now music, flat-panel televisions, a whole host of new handheld devices are fun to talk about and very exciting to look at.

When I was growing up there was a product made by Sony called the Sony Walkman - a rage, everyone had to have one. Well, you don't hear about the Walkman anymore.

I'm the one who made many of the bold comments that we'd seen the technologies from AMD as pretty good. Their technology in many areas was leading. But those are transient.

Most of the services staff is for the larger corporations, not so much for small and medium businesses because they cannot afford an extensive services army.

Our goal is to leverage what is already out in the field in terms of partners, but then hire in project management capability and a bit of technical capability.

We all have many opportunities, but limited capacity to pursue them. Make choices, focus your time and energy, so that you can submit your share of masterpieces to the greater good.

We are seeing a steady improvement in corporate demand. I think it's going to be steady, not explosive, throughout the year.

What we learned several years ago was that one of our weaknesses would be if we didn't develop enough people with the know-how to run our company, it would come to the point where we would just stop.

In the enterprise, the trend is towards smaller, more powerful standardized systems where Dell is uniquely positioned.

Fine, I'll touch you, briefly, but only because you sound like you need the praise that your body's hot, and I'm totally selfless like that.

It takes tremendous discipline, takes tremendous courage, to think for yourself, to examine yourself.

I feel totally responsible for what I see. I feel totally responsible for what I photograph.

For without belittling the courage with which men have died, we should not forget those acts of courage with which men have lived.

I have had a lot of really close friends and family who have been touched by suicide, and I would never want to make light of it.

If someone ever asks you to do something for them, do it really bad so you never have to do it again.

I've always thought preaching to the converted is just kind of futile and silly.

Have you ever noticed how people who wear camouflage gear really stand out in a crowd?

I went for a walk in the rain. Recently, whenever it rains, I feel like I want to go for a walk.

Life is a process by which a few desperate longings morph into a thousand meaningless wants.