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" We expect teachers to handle teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and the failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children. "

" I think that the health care industry is so complex that it doesn't necessarily start with a single killer app. You go back to the early days of the personal computer - when I joined the industry, we really didn't know what the killer app was going to be. "

" I think that Apple has revolutionized every other consumer industry; why not television? The complexity of the experience of using the television gets more and more complicated. So it seems exactly the sort of problem that if anyone is going to change the experience of what the first principles are, it is going to be Apple. "

" As a brand marketer, I'm a big believer in 'branding the customer experience,' not just selling the service. "

" The launch of iPhone is very possibly bigger than the launch of the first Apple II or the first Mac. Steve Jobs's genius is his ability to use technology to create products that define fundamental cultural shifts. "

" Apple makes really good products, and Samsung makes really good products. It's really a two-horse race. Where I think Apple is exposed: the price points of Apple's products are just so high by comparison with Samsung's. "

" Implementers aren't considered bozos anymore. "

" We see healthcare shifting from a procedure reimbursement, where in this country doctors are reimbursed for how many procedures they conduct, to a world where people will be reimbursed for the outcomes - did the patient actually get better, and what was the total cost of the cycle of care. "

" Healthcare has been the last major industry that hasn't been touched by technology in terms of productivity and consumer adoption in the way so many other industries have. "

" The only thing I would say is, I think there's a lot of future value in Blackberry, but without experienced people who have run this type of business, and without a strategic plan, it would be really challenging. "

" There are just moments when all the stars are aligned for breakthrough products. "

" The Mac defined 'personal technology', and the iPhone defines 'intimate technology' as a convergence of communications, content and location. "

" When I left Apple, it had $2 billion of cash. It was the most profitable computer company in the world - not just personal computers - and Apple was the number one selling computer. "

" Is there anyone out there who is the next Steve Jobs? I think Jeff Bezos is pretty close. He is very smart. He is extremely creative. He has completely reinvented the way in which commerce is done online. "

" I never claimed to be a computer engineer, but I did train as an industrial designer, and I am a consumer marketer, and I am very comfortable dealing with complex businesses and complexity in general and simplifying it - basically a systems designer. "

" Our primary goal in the consumer health service companies I back is helping them create an uncompromisingly great consumer experience. "

" Ross Perot came and visited Apple several times and visited the Macintosh factory. Ross was a systems thinker. "

" I didn't appreciate, coming out of corporate America... what it meant to a founder, the creator of the Macintosh, to be asked to step down from the very division that he created to lead the very product that he believed was going to change the world. "

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" It's suddenly practical to do very high quality video wirelessly over mobile devices, and we're just in the early days of that. "

" Apple and Samsung are selling in such high volumes, and they're vertically integrated more and more, that it's very, very hard for anyone to compete against Apple and Samsung in the high-volume part of the smartphone or tablet market. "

" Health care missed the PC and Internet revolutions, but it can't afford to miss the cloud and mobile revolution. "

" The healthcare industry has never had a priority on user experience because there has been little competition. Prices have never been transparent. "

" I have found that I always learn more from my mistakes than from my successes. If you aren't making some mistakes, you aren't taking enough chances. "

" Health innovation, enabled by digital technologies to build big consumer service brands, is an incredibly interesting, complex problem to work on. "

" My guess is that Apple won't just pass Microsoft in market capitalization, but will go way beyond it. "

" I'm an optimist. You can't be an entrepreneur if you're not essentially an optimist, so I'm an optimist by nature. "

" If we hadn't put a man on the moon, there wouldn't be a Silicon Valley today. "

" Timing in life is everything. "

" I think that televisions are unnecessarily complex. The irony is that as the pictures get better and the choice of content gets broader, that the complexity of the experience of using the television gets more and more complicated. "

" People who take risks are the people you'll lose against. "