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"I'm doing a little consulting. I'm somewhat retired, still a director of a company or two."
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"The most peaceable way for you, if you do take a thief, is, to let him show himself what he is and steal out of your company."

"This book was company for me - I wrote these things when I was in hotels, far from where I normally live. I never intended to publish it."

"It was Grant's company and he made all the decisions. And that was just fine."

"We were ready to launch Barry White, but the record company wouldn't put it out. Said it wouldn't sell."

"It's also somewhat in the center of a number of things that will be useful to the company."

"I think it's wrong that only one company makes the game Monopoly."

"It was supposed to be a year or two just to refresh my batteries, but I moved to Silicon Valley in the early 90's, and one thing let to another, got very involved in high tech, and formed a company and it ended up doing pretty well."
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"This could be done in part, because the equipment was very inexpensive. Not much money was involved in tooling so that basic changes of that type could be accomplished."


"It's true that the original idea was mine, but what you see today is the work of probably tens of thousands of the world's best engineers, all concentrating on improving the product, reducing the cost, things of that sort."


"They're very strong in memory. Didn't do very much in microprocessors or digital signal processing."


"How are we doing in the electronics field as opposed to, you know, we hear how advanced the Japanese are? Do you think we're still pretty competitive? Oh, yes."


"Well, it's very dangerous to project, but it's clear that the existing technology has some more years to go."


"I think the varied backgrounds in the beginning were a plus. It took a while for people to understand what they were trying to do and get started, but it did provide for a lot of new ideas."


"I think I thought it would be important for electronics as we knew it then, but that was a much simpler business and electronics was mostly radio and television and the first computers."


"My own interest developed because I thought it was a fascinating subject and something I wanted to pursue."
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