I'm like George Lucas, bringing together a creative team that will come up with a unique, well-crafted product.

Often, the disconnect between the marketing hype around a new product and what the product actually does is astounding.

I routinely failed to understand that 'simple and straightforward' would have been a much better product strategy for Lotus.

The culmination of all of that was the decision to start a company, which became Lotus, to do a product, which became 1-2-3. By the time I reached that point it had been four years, and it felt like a lifetime, but really it was kind of evolutionary.

Life in cyberspace seems to be shaping up exactly like Thomas Jefferson would have wanted: founded on the primacy of individual liberty and a commitment to pluralism, diversity, and community.

'Silicon Valley' has come to mean the Bay Area, not just down the Peninsula.