Either the company raises money too quickly or the idea is too capital intensive. And, just to make sure you are totally pissed off, the investors’ shares are different than yours – they get paid back first.

I would play twice per day for many reasons, including the fact that, with the property tax I was paying, playing twice a day and hitting only forehands, came to one dollar per forehand; I had to amortize the court.

The end of your life will be spent largely horizontal. It's important that the prior years be spent vertical.

I was friends with Debra Larsen and Bruce Bockmann (who was Morgan’s most playful partner, choosing once, when I was a young associate, to introduce us to a new client with our roles reversed)

Non geometric phenomena bore me. Geometric phenomena change the world.

It’s not that I’m necessarily opposed to a nice setting; I just want to spend time with guests who are interested in spending time with me independent of their perceived trappings of my environment.

Sam, unlike me, did not make the mistake of confusing technology with a virtual existence. Upon grasping that technology enabled isolation, I gravitated immediately to a hermitic life. Part of this was based on my medical realities, like a major stroke, but most of it was not. It turned out, for me, to be an unsatisfactory existence. I now crave

Increasingly, my focus is on “horizontal education”. Whereas vertical education is the mastery of a domain, I have found my facility with facts to be marginalized with age and by technology. Horizontal education is all about connectivity. It’s about discerning relationships between events across silos of information.

The success of Google had taught Sam two things. First, the user experience has to be clean and simple. Second, technology, not marketing, now defines the success of an online launch.