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"A book is always a dialogue with other readers and other books."

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"I think Microsoft will have to change. I think that the business of Microsoft, the company of Microsoft, is going to continue to succeed. But I think the business model of Microsoft is going to have to change."

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"Empowerment of individuals is a key part of what makes open source work, since in the end, innovations tend to come from small groups, not from large, structured efforts."

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"I think that companies always become complacent, over time. Or most companies, that is."

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"The network is opening up some amazing possibilities for us to reinvent content, reinvent collaboration."

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"There's not a single business model, and there's not a single type of electronic content. There are really a lot of opportunities and a lot of options and we just have to discover all of them."

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"I think that Microsoft will increasingly feel margin pressure from Linux as well as people saying: well actually the applications that really matter to me are not on my PC. And so they're going to be able to extract less of a monopoly rent, so to speak."

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"Apple is in a position they've been in a lot of times before. They're like Moses showing the way to the promised land, but they don't actually go there."

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"We're entering a new world in which data may be more important than software."

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"We often get blinded by the forms in which content is produced, rather than the job that the content does."

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