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.

I'm not a big prank guy, because I don't like them done to me. I've been on movies sets where one guys goes into his trailer, and then people move the stairs, and he comes out of his trailer, and there's no stairs. That's not funny! I don't want to be that guy!

At a time of economic recession, the need for Medicaid and other safety net services is even greater. And we don't want to raise taxes on people who are having a tough time paying their bills.

Hypotheses are what we lack the least.

Choices determine character.

L.A. is great, but it's a completely different beast. I go back to Minnesota, and I borrow a bike from my neighbor and go around Lake Harriet saying 'Hi' to people. Some of that is missing in L.A.

Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.

Both my parents instilled an interest in science and mathematics.

I was a very weird child. I was very shy, so in school I would just mimic stand-up sets of Whoopi Goldberg.

Threat is in the eye of the beholder.

I think I've spent so much time playing characters that are so far away from me and learning how to technically build and how to technically put something on top of you.

No matter where I go, in this country or outside of this country, there are young people, and I'm always surprised that young people know about me and Colt 45.

I used to stay up all night playing 'Resident Evil 2,' and it wouldn't stop until the sun came up. Then I'd walk outside at dawn's first light, looking at the empty streets of London, and it was like life imitating art. It felt like I'd stepped into an actual zombie apocalypse.

The UN could help the Iraqi government get on its feet and help the United States withdraw a bit more.

When you design a building, you start from a general philosophy, and you come down, and you start from detail and come up. Only the theoretical architect believes that you can make the concept and then sometime, somebody will come to build it.

I really began to love to read while in high school, and my favorite authors were my heroes: J.D. Salinger, Kurt Vonnegut.

A doctor today would never prescribe the treatments my grandfather used in the Confederate Army, but a minister says pretty much the same thing today that a minister would have said back then.

Some people go to acting classes to learn. I just kind of went for the dates.

Lionel Richie, love song, OK, thank you very much, good-bye. And all of a sudden I realized that, in my career, what has made my career has always been the surprises.

Funny is as funny does, and funny puts on a walrus mask and slowly gyrates in a mall food court. I laugh at absurdity hardest, then stories, then observations, then bearded men on roller skates.

I don't just try to be funny.

I bake my daughter cupcakes for her school. Im very hands on.

Free is the best. Anything free is good.

I am not a creature of habit.

I think a submarine is a very worthwhile weapon. I believe we can defend ourselves with submarines and all our troops back at home. This whole idea that we have to be in 130 countries and 900 bases... is an old-fashioned idea.