"I love to try to compress ideas into a short image or a phrase," he says. "These people to me, they sound like, if you're talking about ships out at sea, some people are just icebreakers." Being at the cutting edge is being a fast follower is a great benefit in some ways,. But as long as you really are at thecutting edge and you're always thinking of the next thing, that can also be your advantage", Microsoft co-founder adds.