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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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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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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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By the late '90s, those who were paying attention perceived the Internet as a 20-foot tidal wave coming, and we are all in kayaks.
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How well we communicate is determined not by how well we say things but how well we are understood.
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Technology will always win. You can delay technology by legal interference, but technology will flow around legal barriers.
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You have to understand what it is that you are better at than anybody else and mercilessly focus your efforts on it.
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I think it is very important for you to do two things: act on your temporary conviction as if it was a real conviction and when you realize that you are wrong, correct course very quickly.
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Most Americans probably aren't aware that there was a time in this country when tanks and cavalry were massed on Pennsylvania Avenue to chase away the unemployed.
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It's not enough to make time for your children. There are certain stages in their lives when you have to give them the time when they want it. You can't run your family like a company. It doesn't work.
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There are two options: adapt or die.
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Leaders have to act more quickly today. The pressure comes much faster.
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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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No problem is so complicated that you cannot make it more complicated.
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The worse the news, the more effort should go into communicating it.
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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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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 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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Not all problems have a technological answer, but when they do, that is the more lasting solution.
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