Jazz was a bomb. That was also the low point of Mac sales. People had just written it off.

Lotus's efforts around the Mac were pathetically unsuccessful, which is sad.

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.

Today, in the Internet gold rush, so many people go into dot-com jobs right from school or even before finishing. Their motivation is understandable, but sometimes they just lack experience.

If information wants to be free, then that's true everywhere, not just in information technology.

Computers ought to help people find their own best path through lots of textual information.