 I'm John Furrier with SiliconANGLE.com. Founder, I'm here with the founder of Apple Computer Co-Founder, Steve Wazer of the Waz. Thanks for allowing me to come backstage before SNW where you've given the keynote on innovation quickly. What's your theme for innovation through the talk today? Well, my theme is going to be a lot of the characteristics of innovation, some clever examples, some pointing out what sort of what you should look for in people to get innovation and how we stifle it. You're doing the gig with, as a chief scientist, FusionIO, the hot SSD company in multiple markets, killer technology. Apple's always been innovated with storage back in the early days, and FusionIO is changing the game on storage. What's the big thing about FusionIO and this whole movement that they're pioneering? Well, FusionIO is really the leader in finding the innovative approaches and not the logical, easy to see, the direct, you know, let's replace our hard disks with a solid-state disk. No, finding the solution that actually pays back in dollars, in revenue, in efficiency, in how much you get done for how much money. You were back in the day when you were hacking with Apple and building the big machine that we now know is Mac. You had to hack storage. Storage was a big deal. From floppy drives to hard disk, you had to innovate, not a lot of work with. What message do you say to the culture out there today? The young guns, working with cloud, working with storage, and with FusionIO and all these new tech? What's the hacker message for them out there? Probably the bigger message is to think the way a hacker does. Go down to the smallest little elements and try to get more out of devices, more out of pieces of code than people think you can. Is storage a bottleneck for the innovation going forward as an opportunity from your mind? Storage is a huge opportunity. Right now we're seeing so much innovation, so much change in that area. All of the huge storage network providers, the sand providers, everybody's retooling and going to the newer equipment. The hard disks are coming so far down in price. Then you've got the intermediates, the higher speed, higher access, solid state disks, and then you've got the storage solutions right in the PCI bus like FusionIO and other companies. Oh no, it's a hotbed of innovation. Very competitive too. Final question for you. What gets you excited these days? I mean, you've seen a lot in your day and looking forward, we're at this inflection point with cloud, mobile, social data at the center of the value proposition and storage, etc. What gets you excited about what you see in the future? Well, I get the most excited when I see something that you didn't expect in advance, so I can't predict it. That's the future you don't see is the most exciting. And I also get excited when I see products that have an incredible hop in performance and speed in appearance and beauty and how much they get done. Maybe it's just like a 4G phone instead of a 3G phone. We're here at the WAAS backstage at SNW. Thanks so much for the quick advice. You're going out on the stage. Thanks for your time and have a good trip to London. Thank you very much, John. Okay. That's a wrap. All right.