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Let chaos reign, then rein in chaos.

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Andy Grove
Age: 79 †
Born: 1936
Born: August 2
Died: 2016
Died: March 21
Businessman
Computer Scientist
Engineer
Entrepreneur
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Andrew Stephen Grove
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András István Gróf
Andras Istvan Grof
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You need just the right amount of ambition . . . If you have too little ambition, you don't push or work hard. If you have too much ambition, you put yourself ahead of others, elbow them out of your way.
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You have to pretend you're 100 percent sure. You have to take action you can't hesitate or hedge your bets. Anything less will condemn your efforts to failure.
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Girls don't think boys' games are too hard, they think they are stupid.
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E-Commerce is happening the way all the hype said it would. Internet deployment is happening. Broadband is happening. Everything we ever said about the Internet is happening. And it is very, very early. We can't even glimpse it's potential in changing the way people work and live.
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You have no choice but to operate in a world shaped by globalization and the information revolution. There are two options: adapt or die.
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Every generation thinks that they invented sex.
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I was glad I liked chemistry.
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I wasn't cut out to be an opera singer, but it was a nice fantasy for a teenager growing up in Hungary during the Stalinist era.
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The most important role of managers is to create environment in which people are passionately dedicated to winning in marketplace.
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The new environment dictates two rules: first, everything happens faster second, anything that can be done will be done, if not by you, then by someone else, somewhere.
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Most companies don't die because they are wrong they die because they don't commit themselves. They fritter away their momentum and their valuable resources while attempting to make a decision. The greatest danger is standing still.
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A fundamental rule in technology says that whatever can be done will be done.
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I'm a great believer in particularly being alert to changes that change something, anything, by an order of magnitude, and nothing operates with the factors of 10 as profoundly as the Internet.
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You need to plan the way a fire department plans: it cannot anticipate where the next fire will be, so it has to shape an energetic and efficient team that is capable of responding to the unanticipated as well as to any ordinary event.
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Only the paranoid survive.
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Competition is warfare. Mostly it is played by prescribed rules--there is a sort of Geneva Convention for competition--but it's thorough and often brutal.
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Investment decisions and personal decisions don't wait for the picture to be clarified.
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I don't see Merced appearing on a mainstream desktop inside of a decade.
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Congress will pass a law restricting public comment on the Internet to individuals who have spent a minimum of one hour actually accomplishing a specific task while on line.
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Think about it. Right now, a whole generation of young (customers) in the United States has been brought up to take computers for granted. Pointing a mouse is no more mysterious to them than hitting the on button on the television is to their parents.
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