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.

We Americans are mildly interested, of course, in reading about the discovery of radium by Madame Curie, but what we really yearn to know is the name of the uncommemorated French female who first mixed a sauce bearnaise.

I believe that nothing should be taboo - no theory or prejudice should close one's mind to a discovery.

I remember thinking that people were crazy for reading the same book more than once, but I now have a new-found appreciation for the re-discovery of literature. The lessons we learned from books in the school curriculum are reinvented and updated when we read as adults.

When I was younger I wanted to be a big movie star who'd get to be funny on talk shows and then I wanted to retire and write science fiction.