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I don't see Merced appearing on a mainstream desktop inside of a decade.

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Andy Grove
Age: 79 †
Born: 1936
Born: August 2
Died: 2016
Died: March 21
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Andrew Stephen Grove
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Just as we could have rode into the sunset, along came the Internet, and it tripled the significance of the PC.
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The future is going to take care of itself, like it always has.
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Every generation thinks that they invented sex.
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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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Let chaos reign, then rein in chaos.
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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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With all due respect to Microsoft and Intel, there is no substitute for being in the right place at the right time.
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I believe in the value of paranoia. Business success contains the seeds of its own destruction. The more successful you are, the more people want a chunk of your business and then another chunk and then another until there is nothing left.
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The worse the news, the more effort should go into communicating it.
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