山水安妮
随意的梦幻/学着活人
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Intel在过去这20年间创下的奇迹不得不令人赞叹。 当你提到PC, 要说硬件，那9成是Intel；而软件，那是微软。 说起来英特尔和微软就象两个连体人一样控制着芸芸众生。
可是回到1984年，那时的英特尔被日本公司打得落花流水，损失高达2亿多。人说一个公司处于薇涫逼诰拖笠?吖?劳鲋?龋?你或者走出来成为胜者， 或者消耗在里面从此无人知晓。87年Andy Grove升任总裁， 从此英特尔开始了走出死亡谷的里程。Andy认准了一条：就是PC将会是人们生活中的必需品。这个市场英特尔一定要拿住。
英特尔从那时起，由身家15亿10年后长到了250 亿。市场上无人能与抗衡。
从此Andy Grove也名声鹊起。有人夸他是有远见的天才。 有人冷笑他不过是冷酷无情的生意人，独断专行的大老板。Andy Grove在他的书（Only the paranoids survive）里对远见这个词（vision）颇不以为然, 认为人的选择和行动才是最重要的， 因为新技术一直都会有。当然他也坚持说鼓励公司里的中层发表不同意见对成功至关重要， 但传言中说他对不合他口味的意见是一概不听的。
为此有人不满，说他把英特尔建成了一个“One trick pony" (中文似乎可以用黔驴技穷来形容吧）
甭管说什么， 重要的是这个人仅仅通过一个产品，控制了全世界人民使用计算机的方式，也限制了竞争者动作的余地。 他的能量辐射力绝对令人俯首。尤其考虑到他是到了高中才从匈牙利移民到美国。
所以他说的话大概值得一听（反正我挺喜欢）， 虽然不少是说技术的，但更多对活人也很适用的：
Avoid random motion.
Not all problems have a technological answer, but when they do, that is the more lasting solution.
Satisfaction doesn't come in moments but in periods of time.
Privacy is one of the biggest problems in this new electronic age. At the heart of the Internet culture is a force that wants to find out everything about you. And once it has found out everything about you and two hundred million others, that's a very valuable asset, and people will be tempted to trade and do commerce with that asset. This wasn't the information that people were thinking of when they called this the information age.
Take a bit of the future and make it your present.
Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.
We're living the Next Big Thing. It's a little like living in the time when electricity was in its early stages. It took decades for electricity to change the landscape. We're in the early stages of recasting our commercial lives, our professional lives, our health practices, everything.
You have to pretend you're 100 percent sure. You have to take action; you can't hesitate or hedge your bets. Anything less will condemn your efforts to failure.
Profits are the lifeblood of enterprise. Don't let anyone tell you different.
You must understand your mistakes. Study the hell out of them. You're not going to have the chance of making the same mistake again--you can't step into the river again at the same place and the same time--but you will have the chance of making a similar mistake.
Status is a very dangerous thing. I've met too many people who make it a point of pride that they never take money out of a cash machine, people who are too good to have their own e-mail address, because that's for everybody else but not them. It's hard to fight the temptation to set yourself apart from the rest of the world.
Risk is the cost of aggressive objectives.
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.
Assume any career moves you make won't go smoothly. They won't. But don't look back.
A corporation is a living organism; it has to continue to shed its skin. Methods have to change. Focus has to change. Values have to change. The sum total of those changes is transformation.
Technology is both an end in itself and a means to other ends. When you figure something out and make it work, there is pleasure and excitement. Not just because the technology is going to do something, but because you created something with its own inherent beauty, like art, like literature, like music.
Denial can blind.
It is a very important truism that immigrants and immigration are what made America what it is. We must be vigilant as a nation to have a tolerance for differences, a tolerance for new people.
When you have cancer, there's always a finite chance that it will recur, so talking about the whole experience in past tense is a little presumptuous. So yes, I have faced the prospect of dying, of having a specific cause of mortality hanging over my head for the rest of my life. But I don't think the experience changed me, not that either I or anyone close to me has been able to spot.
All art is in some fashion escape. It sucks you out of your own life. It absorbs you.
Retirement is a process. You have to figure out the new rules, and you have to figure out what works under the new rules.
The most powerful tool of all is the word no. There's never enough time.
you are so right, the history is the best testimony. I think some people are just very jealous of him.