In The Entrepreneurial World, When You Launch

The Resources You Happen To Accumulate, What Do You Do With Them? You Can Spend The Money And Buy Some Houses Or Whatever, And People Do Some Of That And That's Fine. You Can Give The Money To Other People, Your Family, But Usually When You Do That You Screw Them Up And It Ends Up Counterproductive. Or, You Take Those Resources And Reinvest Them In Things That You Believe In, And That Could Be Reinvesting In A Philanthropic Cause.

Because I Do Think - Not Just In Building Aol - But Just The World In Which We Live Is A Very Confusing, Rapidly Changing World Where Technology Has Accelerated.

I Do Think That A General Liberal Arts Education Is Very Important, Particularly In An Uncertain Changing World

If You're Doing Something New You've Got To Have A Vision. You've Got To Have A Perspective. You've Got To Have Some North Star You're Aiming For, And You Just Believe Somehow You'll Get There, Which Kind Of Gets To The Passion Point.

And What We Did With This New Company In 1985 Is We Did Start Focusing On Pcs Instead Of Video Game Machines, Because We Learned The Hard Lesson About Bringing A Product To Market In A Consumer World Where It's Very Expensive To Build A Brand And Get Distribution And So Forth.