At Linkabit, we put little effort and energy into patenting things.

While I was at Cornell in engineering, I was an engineering co-op student, and that turned out to be very valuable because we'd go out every other term to work in industry and have that close association with industry.

We try to preach innovation. We provide resources; we invite speakers in from universities to talk about new ideas.

When we began Qualcomm, it had become quite clear that it was very important to patent new ideas.

It's dreadful what little things lead people to misunderstand each other.

You put so many hours and hours for year after year and you put all your effort and energy into one of these things. And then to see it finally come to this ... it feels good. You don't like to lose, so it really does feel good.