Well, I was born and raised in Rochester, New York.

I was one of the founders in, in that, the three of us all had the, had the founder's stock.

So I, I knew something in a business sense about semiconductors and I appreciated their possibilities.

I think they, Peter McCullough was, turns out was not a good CEO.

People come in with business plans and, I mean I know that no one is going to meet everything they say in a business plan but you got to have something to, to guide towards.

IBM decided they were going to enter the copying business in 1968.

Well, I was born and raised in Rochester, New York.

I mean I wasn't a founder in the sense that I contributed anything scientifically but in the sense that I signed the corporation papers and, and owned founder's stock.

And we invested three hundred thousand dollars, became the lead investor and I became Chairman of the Board of Scientific Data Systems, as I was at Intel for a while.

You know, a lot of people are just interested in, in building a company so they can make money and get out.

And what I'm interested in is investing in people.

Killing Intel, I, I just had to resign from the Apple Board.

Which, the first meeting with anybody is, you know, everybody is on their best behavior. It's only after you get to know them for a while that you figure out.

And then lo and behold IBM, Apple and Motorola took an ad in all the newspapers, double page ad, and said, announcing the chip that they were now able to manufacture it and that they were going to kill Intel.

My father was an immigrant from Russia and my mother was first generation.

It's obvious nonsense, but it makes nice people feel good about themselves to do their bit for the planet. It's vanity of a grotesque kind to believe that mankind, and our 'carbon footprint', has more impact on the future of Earth than Nature, which bends our planet to its will, as it sees fit.

Ted Turner sailed into the meeting, and I mean sailed. He holds himself as if he were at the helm of his sailboat, in the process of winning the race.

The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.

I am a writer. I could not afford to take 15 months off from my writing career to play detective.

Everybody is so terribly sensitive about the things they know best.

I was very afraid of failure because if you fail at something you love, then you ruin what you love.

I've been a mogul and executive since the beginning of my career. People are just born with that skill.

You have greatness in you. The key is to get it out.

My first job was with an auto plant, Kansas City - they treated you like slaves. From there I went back to Chicago, worked in steel mills, drove a cab, stuff like that.

The desire to be rewarded for one's creativity does not justify depriving the world in general of all or part of that creativity.

Investing in Chicago property is just Wanda's first move into the U.S. real estate market.

And the fifteenth century was an impassioned age, so ardent and serious in its pursuit of art that it consecrated everything with which art had to ad as a religious object.

To see you naked is to recall the Earth.

My return to London introduced me to a wider range of society.

I want to speak, to sing to total strangers. It's my way of talking to the world.

There are two choices available in duality one side or the other side. Everyting is formed from that.

The only thing that we cannot control is our supporters.

But thanks to the efforts, the initiative of the United States and of the several countries from the world, from Europe, including Turkey, it ended within a few weeks.

People seem to think I'm Satan.

There are two kinds of terrorism. Rational terrorism such as Palestinian terrorism and apocalyptic terrorism like Sept. 11. You have to distinguish between the two.

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.

I definitely was in the sequined, bedazzled era. We would put blue eye shadow up our eyebrows and glitter all over our faces. I probably put more effort into my skating outfits than my clothes.

The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.

It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed 'Wisdom.' And then I know exactly what is going to follow: 'Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.'