Focusing Is About Saying No.

A Lot Of Companies Have Chosen To Downsize, And Maybe That Was The Right Thing For Them. We Chose A Different Path. Our Belief Was That If We Kept Putting Great Products In Front Of Customers, They Would Continue To Open Their Wallets.

To Follow The Path That Others Have Laid Before You Is A Reasonable Course Of Action; Therefore All Progress Is Made By Unreasonable Men.

You Have To Trust In Something--your Gut, Destiny, Life, Karma, Whatever.

So We Went To Atari And Said, 'hey, We've Got This Amazing Thing, Even Built With Some Of Your Parts, And What Do You Think About Funding Us? Or We'll Give It To You. We Just Want To Do It. Pay Our Salary, We'll Come Work For You.' And They Said, 'no.' So Then We Went To Hewlett-packard, And They Said, 'hey, We Don't Need You. You Haven't Got Through College Yet.'

This Revolution, The Information Revolution, Is A Revolution Of Free Energy As Well, But Of Another Kind: Free Intellectual Energy.