“What both Dell and Gary figured out before opening themselves up is that conventional business wisdom that companies need to be secretive in order to be successful is wrong.”
“The conventional wisdom is often wrong.”
“It is our task, both in science and in society at large, to prove the conventional wisdom wrong and to make our unpredictable dreams come true”
“When the government makes loans or subsidies to business, what it does is to tax successful private business in order to support unsuccessful private business.”
“Compaqs, Dells and Novells each of which emerged from practically nothing to become major corporations. What's the common among these companies is that they all instinctively followed the rules for success in a horizontal industry.”
“Horses were never wrong. They always did what they did for a reason, and it was up to you to figure it out.”