Don’t look at your data through rose-colored glasses: always strive to be honest with yourself about what the data indicates you can improve.

What's real? What's not? That's what I do in my act, test how other people deal with reality.

Ideas are cheap—what counts is the ability to translate an idea into reality, which is much more difficult than recognizing a good idea.

The business model is good, but the euphoria over CDMA got well ahead of reality,

It was clear to me that reality was catching up with satire so fast that somebody might read this essay on how to have the December 31 baby and obey it,

Yeah, I remember that. I was not going about the business the way I was supposed to.