I probably make my team crazy with the questions I ask, but you really have to understand the deep details to be able set your strategy.

We used to take a used locomotive engine, tear it down, rebuild it, and put it back out there. We treated all the engines the same.

I grew up in Finance.

When you're in finance, you see the company deeply - where it's running well and where there's issues you've got to solve.

Regardless of the technology, we at Cisco believe that there is a need to 'connect the unconnected,' whether it is using 3G, 4G or Wi-Fi. We are working on enabling heterogeneous access across different technologies. The basic need to 'connect to unconnected' still remains.

In an age of social media and content being key, it's important to change the mold where you have $100,000 to $150,000 for one video. I hired some guys that are young, just out of college, and we used some new, far-less-expensive cameras and technology to make videos.

In the world of the Internet, there are many falsehoods. Anyone can write stuff on Wikipedia, and it doesn't have to be true.

If Unix could present the same face, the same capabilities, on machines of many different types, it could serve as a common software environment for all of them.