In a company where tech decisions were still ultracentralized, the repercussions of a distracted CEO had to be damaging.

For the most part, the best opportunities now lie where your competitors have yet to establish themselves, not where they're already entrenched. Microsoft is struggling to adapt to that new reality.

What fire joins none man can put aside,

I run angry. Football allows me to take out some of my pain on the field.

Take heed of the Vinegar of sweet Wine, and the Anger of Good-nature.

One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide.

It is not like every episode [of "Mary and Jane"] people are sitting around getting high.

If you don't ask the right questions, I can't give you the answers, and if you don't know the right question to ask, you're not ready for the answers

Leadership is not taken, it is given. People give leadership to those that they trust. They allow people that they trust to have influence over their lives.

As a director, I really wanted to learn and I needed to get away from my own stuff to figure out how to just do things and work with good people.

Things that Shane doesn't want on his grave: (1.) I thought it wasn't loaded. (2.) Hand me a match so I can check the gas tank. (3.) Killed over Ice Cream

What you are comes to you.