Life is not fair; get used to it. My job is about the most fun thing I do, but I have a broad set of interests, going places, reading things, doing things. Never before in history has innovation offered promise of so much to so many in so short a time. Often you have to rely on intuition. One thing people underestimate is how markets don't allow anyone to do anything except make better and better products. There will be 'two societies' in the future: high-paid knowledge workers and low-paid service workers. Our vision of what's important is exactly the same today, bringing together the best systems and the best software to empower people with rich information solutions. The vision is really that in the information age the microprocessor-based machine, the PC, along with great software, can become sort of the ultimate tool dealing with not just text, but numbers and pictures, and eventually, even difficult things like motion video. Television is not real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs. The frontiers were sort of wide open. It was that sense of excitement that we really wanted to spark in everybody else wherever we went. |