"A corporation's primary goal is to make money. Government's primary role is to take a big chunk of that money and give it to others."
"You have to take a broader view and realize this is an industry like any other - telecoms, Railroads; they went through consolidation. Why shouldn't the computer industry be any different? This shouldn't have been a surprise to anybody but it seemed to be, and a lot of people thought I was nuts when I said these things. And that's why they are alone as a consolidator."
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Source: Oh, What a Tangled Web Silicon Valley Executives Weave. www.wsj.com. March 05, 1998.
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