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I wish HP nothing but the best. I think HP is an icon. Those of us who had their careers in the Valley think of Dave Packard and Bill Hewlett as role models. We would love to be half as good as they were.

Tech companies tend to do tech best.

Like it or not, at HP we are technologists, not executive compensation consultants.

The best training ground in the world is Silicon Valley and the tech space.

I managed Hewlett Packard through the worst technology downturn in 25 years, the dotcom bust.

Silicon Valley has some of the smartest engineers and technology business people in the world.

We think that it is the best scientists working in the frontier fields of science who are best able to judge what is good and what is bad - if any - in the application of their scientific research.

Of all the inventions of humans, the computer is going to rank near or at the top as history unfolds and we look back. It is the most awesome tool that we have ever invented. I feel incredibly lucky to be at exactly the right place in Silicon Valley, at exactly the right time, historically, where this invention has taken form.

Call me an optimist, but in the past 300 years we have built amazing technologies which - by and large - have advanced humanity.