Yes, so as we started with Steve, Steve had a reputation.
Which everybody knows, it's part of the public record,
people talk a lot about it.
And I want to later address some of that.
But I did ask Steve to begin with,
I said, so what happens or how do you work
if somebody doesn't agree with you.
And he said, well I just explain it to them until they understand.
So I go back to my colleagues and explain
this and they all have this nervous laugh.
Now the thing you should understand is,
in all the 26 years with Steve,
Steve and I never had one of these loud verbal
arguments and it's not my nature to do that.
So I never actually had an argument with Steve,
but we did disagree fairly frequently about things.
And the way it worked was,
I discovered, it was that I would say something to him and he would immediately
shoot it down because he could think faster than I could.
So it would end the conversation and I would then wait a week,
and usually this was on the telephone.
I'd call him up and I give my counter argument to what
he had said and he'd immediately shoot it down.
So I had to wait another week, and sometimes this went on for months.
But in the end one of three things happened.
About a third of the time he said,
oh, I get it, you're right and that was the end of it.
And it was another third of the time in which you'd say,
actually I think he is right.
The other third of the time where we didn't reach consensus,
he just let me do it my way,
never said anything more about it.
