A column really works best when you really have something to say about something. I haven't had a great original thought on this.

Hardware works best when it matters the least.

When I first started writing the column and then the book came out, there were so many women who would come up to me and say: This is me. This is about my life, you know, and nobody has done it before. And I think that that's what they've done really successfully with the TV series, is they made women feel like it's about their lives.

When it comes down to it, it's one in the win column for the team. That's what really matters.

Good advice usually works best when preceded by a bad scare.

If you consider that PeopleSoft and J.D. Edwards put together the best financing approach when they announced their original merger, this sub-optimal approach can only be a ploy to preserve management's self-interest,