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The first calculators tended to sell for $400 or $500. Today, you can get a pretty good one for 4 or $5.

I've sold a lot of different product. Very briefly, I sold Time Life Books on the phone.

Selling Atari when I did - I think that's my biggest regret. And I probably should have gotten back heavily into the games business in the late Eighties. But I was operating under this theory at the time that the way to have an interesting life was to reinvent yourself every five or six years.

I have some assets that over time will be worth something. I've been in the process of selling others.

I never made lots of money at it, but I sold enough.

I bought a laptop in 1999, and it was quite liberating, because I could make a lot of my own decisions.

I never have used computers or calculators. I've always been able to figure out in my head, far before my opposition has, in negotiating for acquisitions, where we need to be and where the numbers are and how we could get the best sight of the bargain, without having to resort to accountants or assistants or financial experts.

I don't know whether you have done your calculations but, about two or three years back, I did a first assessment of what the first successful device would be worth and it came out at about 300 trillion dollars.

Your most important sale in life is to sell yourself to yourself.