You don't know if this will be the shareholders' choice, or a political choice. For the steel industry, this is read more

You don't know if this will be the shareholders' choice, or a political choice. For the steel industry, this is Microsoft buying Apple.

The hardest part of this job is that you have to be more than a manager. You have to be read more

The hardest part of this job is that you have to be more than a manager. You have to be a rock star. And I'm not that good a rock star.

We don't want to be known as the 'Intelligent Design University,' ... We don't think this is science.

We don't want to be known as the 'Intelligent Design University,' ... We don't think this is science.

When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, it seems like two minutes. When you sit on a read more

When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, it seems like two minutes. When you sit on a hot stove for two minutes, it seems like two hours that's relativity.

Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, read more

Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won't come in.

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

I believe God has a plan. God has a direction for me. He may put me on a few detours, read more

I believe God has a plan. God has a direction for me. He may put me on a few detours, but the path with ultimately reveal itself. My job is to be a decent human being no matter how rocky the road gets.

Written laws are like spider's webs; they will catch, it is true, the weak and the poor, but would be read more

Written laws are like spider's webs; they will catch, it is true, the weak and the poor, but would be torn in pieces by the rich and powerful.

I have been fielding quite a few calls about Apple's filing of the 'Mobile Me' patent. Folks have been speculating read more

I have been fielding quite a few calls about Apple's filing of the 'Mobile Me' patent. Folks have been speculating about a phone from Apple for more than a year. Being that I am a wireless analyst, I don't follow Apple as closely as others do. What I do know though, is that we are not likely to know until Apple wants us to know. They are pretty good at big surprises. Do I think they are developing a phone? Probably. Probably somewhere in their labs, there are prototypes of phones. Whether or not they bring one to market commercially is another story. Whether or not they will do so on their own is another open question. Hard to imagine carrier subsidies on a device unless there are revenues to be earned through downloaded services and content.