It feels good, I guess, to live up to expectations, ... But the season's nowhere near over, and we're trying to get better.

I think we all accept the expectations. And I think we'll be good. In the first half, though, we just didn't play very well.

The question is: Is Dell dropping the ball or are analysts' expectations rising? I think it's more of the latter. It's almost expected that Dell will do the unexpected.

It is extremely motivating. We have high expectations on this team and we're trying to live up to them. Now we know it takes hard work.

Maybe it's in the back of our minds. But we're not trying to live up to anyone's expectations. We have other goals.

We think the Fed is trying to manage market expectations on the pace of economic recovery and on when the Fed is likely to shift its (monetary policy) bias to neutral.