We are increasingly a software company ... we've kind of hit a tipping point.

You might see some [technologies] start to emerge as early as a year from now as a direct result of this.

We basically want to provide the Internet with the kind of reliability people are accustomed to seeing in their telephone network.

What we're playing here is a cat-and-mouse game. Are we going to have two factions sitting here, trying to wait out the other faction?

I guarantee you're about to blow the deal of the century. You're not going to get a property like this (again). God doesn't make it any more.

I think you'll know Nortel as more a software company than a hardware company.

For me, it was surprising. Which is not to say I knew some people had some concerns, but I was surprised.

We have a building boom going on here that is absolutely unprecedented. It just doesn't want to stop.

I think there will be not a step missed with the county contract.