bill gates was asked about how we control to schedule and he said he has steve ballmer check it and cross check it. what advice do you have about the way you commit your time and build your schedule? mr. cuban: i have somebody who runs my life who does my schedule. but i don't commit so far in advance simply because i still think the best is yet to come. i am still excited about all of the opportunities that are in bringof me, so i want to -- i don't want to preclude myself from something. like i said, i am such a strong believer in the american dream, such a strong believer that today is the youngest you will ever be and you have to live like it. i'm a strong believer that the best is yet to come for me. if that is the case, i'm not going to lock anything in. >> we have 30 seconds. many in our scholars asked, what is the next big thing? thing is: the next big a big center for the mavs. i would say personalized medicine. our bodies basically our equations and esther peterson get faster and faster we begin to understand more -- and as computers get faster and faster, we begin to understand

you and steve ballmer and bill gates -- an office, no windows. and it was -- you know, go-no go. are we really going do this. what was the thing that said, all right, let's go? >> ultimately the discussion we were have, microsoft wanted a position in the living room. we had the discussion let's not do this. we talked about it for 2.5, 3 hours and said let's not do it. we talked about it for another hour after that. the conclusion was we had to have a place there. our team had a certain approach we wanted to take, to build xbox, a nontraditional mofrtd a-- microsoft an approach. they were serious and backed us every step of the way for the project, an amazing commitment to us. >> it was almost killed on several occasions, right? they were expecting the windows box that also happened to play games -- >> which would have been a disaster. >> would have been awful. >> in fact, that's in large part what happened -- the meeting that we refer to as the valentine's day massacre because it took place at the end of the day on valentine's day. >> nobody could go to their meeting -- >> nobody

and he said he had steve ballmer check it and cross check it and not commit things so far out as if you're not going to be busy then. what advice do you have about the way you commit your time, and build your schedule? >> i have somebody who runs my life. who does my schedule. but i'm the same way. i don't commit so far in advance simply because i still think the best is yet to come. you know, i'm still excited about all the opportunities that are in front of me. and so i don't want to preclude myself from something. and like a lot of people here, you know, we get asked to speak every minute of every day. i just, you know, like i said i'm such a strong believer in the american dream. i'm such a strong believer that today is the youngest you'll ever be. you have to live like it. and i'm such a strong believer that the best is yet to come for me. and if that's the case -- and my children. if that's the case, then i'm not going to lock anything in. you know, my schedule is tbd. and hopefully will be for a long time. >> 30 seconds. if you thought the last question was tough, many of our schola

he said he has steve ballmer check it and cross-check it.hat advice do you have about the way you commit your time and build your schedule? >> i have somebody who runs my life who does my schedule, but i'm the same way. i don't commit so far this advance simply because i still think the best is yet to come, you know? i'm still excited about all the opportunities that are in front of me. and so i don't want to preclude myself from something. and like a lot of people here, you know, we get asked to speak every minute of every day. i just, you know, like i said is, i'm such a strong believer in the american dream, i'm such a strong believer that today is the youngest you'll ever be, you have to live like it, and i'm such a strong believer that the best is yet to come for me. and if that's the case -- and my children. if that's the case, then i'm not going to lock anything in. my schedule's tbd and hopefully will be for a long time. [laughter] >> we have 30 seconds. if you thought the last question was tough, many of our scholars asked what is t