"You need to try to do the impossible, to anticipate the unexpected. And when the unexpected happens, you should double the efforts to make order from the disorder it creates in your life. The motto I'm advocating is — Let chaos reign, then rein chaos. Does that mean that you shouldn't plan? Not at all. You need to plan the way a fire department plans. It cannot anticipate fires, so it has to shape a flexible organization that is capable of responding to unpredictable events."

“A fundamental rule in technology says that whatever can be done will be done.”

“Technology will always win. You can delay technology by legal interference, but technology will flow around legal barriers.”

“You have no choice but to operate in a world shaped by globalization and the information revolution. There are two options: adapt or die.”

“Bad companies are destroyed by crisis, Good companies survive them, Great companies are improved by them.”

“In various bits and pieces, we have steered Intel from a start-up to one of the central companies of the information economy.”

“Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.”