For Silicon Valley and its idols, innovation is the new selfishness.
You have to risk failure to succeed. The important thing is not to make one single mistake that will jeopardize the future.
Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius.
I founded Wang Laboratories. . . to show that Chinese could excel at things other than running laundries and restaurants.
Progress is not a straight line; the future is not a mere projection of trends in the present. Rather, it is revolutionary. It overturns the conventional wisdom of the present, which often conceals or ignores the clues to the future.
My theme for philanthropy is the same approach I used with technology: to find a need and fill it.
Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change.
My second novel, Good Benito, was not finished. I wished that I had spent another year with it.
We cannot create what we can't imagine.
By reading the characteristic features of any man's castles in the air you can make a shrewd guess as to his underlying desires which are frustrated.
You hung with me when all the others turned away, turned up their noses We liked the same music, we liked the same bands, we liked the same clothes Yeah we told each other that we were the wildest, the wildest things we'd ever seen Now I wish you would have told me, I wish I could have talked to you Just to say goodbye, Bobby Jean.