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If you look at the top 20 companies of the world, 19 of them are still brick-and-mortar
companies. I have nothing against tech companies. What I am saying is that if
you have a car manufacturer or an oil and gas manufacturer, you won’t get
the supply over the Net.
Anil
Ambani - Companies
- Internet
- Tech
The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people
to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive.
It lets people learn things they didn't think they could learn before, and so
in a sense it is all about potential.
Steve
Ballmer - Technology
- Learning
- Innovation
- Solutions
The lifeblood of our business is that R&D spend. There's nothing that
flows through a pipe or down a wire or anything else. We have to continuously
create new innovation that lets people do something they didn't think they could
do the day before.
Steve
Ballmer - Technology
- Innovation
- Products
Over the years, the U.S. economy has shown a remarkable ability to absorb
shocks of all kinds, to recover, and to continue to grow. Flexible and efficient
markets for labor and capital, an entrepreneurial tradition, and a general willingness
to tolerate and even embrace technological and economic change all contribute
to this resiliency.
Ben
Bernanke - Change
- Economy
- Entrepreneurs
- Technology
As we go forward, I hope we're going to continue to use technology to make
really big differences in how people live and work.
Sergey
Brin - Technology
- Work -
Innovation
Some say Google is God. Others say Google is Satan. But if they think Google
is too powerful, remember that with search engines unlike other companies, all
it takes is a single click to go to another search engine.
Sergey
Brin - Technology
- Internet
- Companies
Renewable energy is proven technology, the price is dropping, the rest of
the world is going that way, that's where our investment should be going as well.
Bob
Brown - Technology
- Innovation
Even in such technical lines as engineering, about 15% of one's financial
success is due one's technical knowledge and about 85% is due to skill in human
engineering, to personality and the ability to lead people.
Dale
Carnegie - Skill
- Technology
- People
- Knowledge
- Success
It's a fact that more people watch television and get their information that
way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very
exciting and would like to do more in this field.
Stephen
Covey - Technology
- Learning
There are
managers so preoccupied with their e-mail messages that they never look up from
their screens to see what's happening in the nondigital world.
Mihaly
Csikszentmihalyi - Management
- Internet
- Technology
Our business is about technology, yes. But it's also about operations and
customer relationships.
Michael
Dell - Customers
- Technology
- Business
The interesting
thing is when we design and architect a server, we don't design it for Windows
or Linux, we design it for both. We don't really care, as long as we're selling
the one the customer wants.
Michael
Dell - Customers
- Technology
Almost everybody today believes that nothing
in economic history has ever moved as fast
as, or had a greater impact than, the Information
Revolution. But the Industrial Revolution
moved at least as fast in the same time
span, and had probably an equal impact if
not a greater one.
Peter
Drucker - Technology
- Change
The new information technology—Internet
and e-mail—have practically eliminated the
physical costs of communications.
Peter
Drucker - Technology
- Internet
We are in the throes of a transition where
every publication has to think of their
digital strategy.
Bill
Gates - Strategies
- Technology
Robots will play an important role in providing
physical assistance and even companionship
for the elderly.
Bill
Gates - Technology
- Robot
- Care
I think it's fair to say that personal computers
have become the most empowering tool we've
ever created. They're tools of communication,
they're tools of creativity and they can
be shaped by their user.
Bill
Gates - Technology
- Computers
- Power
- Communication
- Creativity
If something is expensive to develop, and
somebody's not going to get paid, it won't
get developed. So you decide: Do you want
software to be written, or not?
Bill
Gates - Invention
- Technology
- Software
- Products
- Profits
Information technology and business are
becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't
think anybody can talk meaningfully about
one without the talking about the other.
Bill
Gates - Internet
- Technology
- Business
I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most
empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools
of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user.
Bill
Gates - Internet
- Technology
- Products
It's pretty incredible to look back 30 years to when Microsoft was starting
and realize how work has been transformed. We're finally getting close to what
I call the digital workstyle.
Bill
Gates - Technology
- Improvement
- Change
Paper is no longer a big part of my day. I get 90% of my news online,
and when I go to a meeting and want to jot things down, I bring my Tablet PC.
It's fully synchronized with my office machine so I have all the files I need.
Bill
Gates - Internet
- Technology
Microsoft has had its success by doing low-cost products and constantly
improving those products and we've really redefined the IT industry to be something
that's about a tool for individuals.
Bill
Gates - Products
- Technology
- Improvement
- Success
We are always saying to ourself.. we have to innovate. We got to come up
with that breakthrough. In fact, the way software works.. so long as you are using
your existing software.. you don't pay us anything at all. So we're only paid
for breakthroughs.
Bill
Gates - Products
- Technology
- Customers
- Innovative
Competition is always a fantastic thing, and the computer industry is intensely
competitive. Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic
competitors and it keeps us on our toes.
Bill
Gates - Technology
- Competition
We're responsible for the creation of the PC industry. The whole idea of
compatible machines and lots of software.. that's something we brought to computing.
And so it's a responsibility for us to make sure that things like security don't
get in the way of that dream.
Bill
Gates - Internet
- Technology
- Responsibility
- Challenges
Security is, I would say, our top priority because for all the exciting things
you will be able to do with computers.. organizing your lives, staying in touch
with people, being creative.. if we don't solve these security problems, then
people will hold back. Businesses will be afraid to put their critical information
on it because it will be exposed.
Bill
Gates - Internet
- Technology
- Problems
Technology
happens, it's not good, it's not bad. Is steel good or bad?
Andrew
Grove - Technology
A fundamental rule in technology says that whatever can be done will be done.
Andrew
Grove - Technology
- Improvement
Not all problems have a technological answer, but when they do, that is the
more lasting solution.
Andrew
Grove - Technology
- Problems
- Solutions
I think Amazon is the preeminent pioneer in building a new way of doing commerce:
personalized, database-driven commerce, where the big value is not in the purchase
fulfillment, but in knowing as much about a customer base of ten or twenty million
people as a corner store used to know about a customer base of a few hundred.
In today's mass-merchandising world, that's largely gone; Amazon is trying to
use computer technology to re-establish it.
Andrew
Grove - Technology
- Internet
- Customers
Speech has allowed the communication of
ideas, enabling human beings to work together
to build the impossible. Mankind's greatest
achievements have come about by talking,
and its greatest failures by not talking.
It doesn't have to be like this. Our greatest
hopes could become reality in the future.
With the technology at our disposal, the
possibilities are unbounded. All we need
to do is make sure we keep talking.
Stephen
Hawking - Human
Race - Possible
- Communication
- Ideas
- Achievement
- Failures
- Hope
- Technology
- Talk
In this new wave of technology, you can't
do it all yourself, you have to form alliances.
Carlos
Slim Helu - Technology
- Partnership
I still have my laptop but I haven't used it. I'm a paper man, not electronic.
Carlos
Slim Helu - Technology
I think one of the big errors people are making right now is thinking that
old-style businesses will be obsolete, when actually they will be an important
part of this new civilization. Some retail groups are introducing e-commerce and
think that the "bricks" are no longer useful. But they will continue
to be important.
Carlos
Slim Helu - Technology
- Mistakes
- Business
- Internet
The key is the Internet. The United States is by far the most advanced country
in this new digital culture, so we have to be there. The Internet is the heart
of this new civilization, and telecommunications are the nervous system, or circulatory
system.
Carlos
Slim Helu - Technology
- Internet
- Growth
- American
To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company
that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines.
Steve
Jobs - Skill
- Technology
- Innovation
I have an almost religious zeal.. not for technology per se, but for the
Internet which is for me, the nervous system of mother Earth, which I see as a
living creature, linking up.
Dan
Millman - Technology
- Internet
It is extremely unlikely that anyone coming out of school with a technical
degree will go into one area and stay there. Today's students have to look forward
to the excitement of probably having three or four careers.
Gordon
Moore - Learning
- Change
- Jobs -
Technology
I remember the difficulty we had in the beginning replacing magnetic cores
in memories and eventually we had both cost and performance advantages. But it
wasn't at all clear in the beginning.
Gordon
Moore - Technology
- Challenges
With engineering, I view this year's failure as next year's opportunity
to try it again. Failures are not something to be avoided. You want to have them
happen as quickly as you can so you can make progress rapidly.
Gordon
Moore - Learning
- Technology
- Challenges
- Failure
The technology at the leading edge changes so rapidly that you have to keep
current after you get out of school. I think probably the most important thing
is having good fundamentals.
Gordon
Moore - Learning
- Knowledge
- Change
- Technology
The Internet has been the most fundamental change during my lifetime and
for hundreds of years. Someone the other day said, "It's the biggest thing
since Gutenberg," and then someone else said "No, it's the biggest thing
since the invention of writing."
Rupert
Murdoch - Change
- Internet
- Technology
There is so much media now with the Internet and people, and so easy and
so cheap to start a newspaper or start a magazine, there’s just millions
of voices and people want to be heard.
Rupert
Murdoch - Internet
- Technology
I had one
simple idea about telling friends about arts and technology events. People in
the community suggested everything else to us, and that's our theme. We're really
run by the people who use the site. We just run the infrastructure, and help out
with problems.
Craig
Newmark - Technology
- People
- Ideas
- Friends
- Help -
Problems
- Internet
I need to make an okay living. The people who work for us need to. But after
you make a comfortable living, how much more do you need? It's like I make a joke
about nerd values, because I'm very much in the rich nerd tradition. And you know,
we say, like, hey, people pay us for this stuff, like programming. You know, what
else do we need?
Craig
Newmark - Technology
- Money
- Earnings
- Rich -
Jobs
We have technology, finally, that for the first time in human history allows
people to really maintain rich connections with much larger numbers of people.
Pierre
Omidyar - Technology
- People
- Internet
eBay's business is based on enabling someone to do business with another
person, and to do that, they first have to develop some measure of trust, either
in the other person or the system.
Pierre
Omidyar - Technology
- People
- Business
I'm a great believer in new technology and I think new technology is very
scary for newspaper companies.
James
Packer - Change
- Companies
- Technology
The fact that I have entered into IT-related business is proof that businesses
have to evolve and keep with time. One has to re-invent continuously.
Kerry
Packer - Change
- Technology
I don't want to be left behind. In fact, I want to be here before the
action starts.
Kerry
Packer - Action
- Opportunity
- Technology
As we transition from one screen to multiscreens,
Google has enormous opportunities to innovate
and drive ever higher monetization. Just
like Search in 2000.
Larry
Page - Technology
- Internet
- Google
- Opportunity
- Search
- Innovation
- Gadgets
As devices multiply and usage changes (many
users coming online today may never use
a desktop machine), it becomes more and
more important to ensure that people can
access all of their stuff anywhere.
Larry
Page - Technology
- Internet
- Gadgets
- Change
- Computers
Most of us carry at least one device, all
the time, every day. In fact many of us
would feel naked without our smartphone.
It’s hardly surprising mobile search
queries - and mobile commerce - are growing
dramatically across the world.
Larry
Page - Technology
- Internet
- Search
- Gadgets
- Growth
Sergey
and I founded Google because we’re
super optimisitc about the potential for
technology to make the world a better place.
Think about how many people are underserved
by transportation today, like those with
disabilities, and how self driving cars
will transform their lives. Or the wasted
time you sit in your car every day commuting
to and from work. Or the deaths and injuries
that could be avoided.
Larry
Page - Technology
- Google
- Optimistic
- Disability
- Car
- Transport
Excellence matters, and technology advances
so fast that the potential for improvement
is tremendous. So, since becoming CEO again,
I’ve pushed hard to increase our velocity,
improve our execution, and focus on the
big bets that will make a difference in
the world.
Larry
Page - Google
- Technology
- Improvement
- Fast
- Potential
- CEO
- Focus
We have always tried to concentrate on the
long term, and to place bets on technology
we believe will have a significant impact
over time. It’s hard to imagine now,
but when we started Google most people thought
search was a solved problem and that there
was no money to be made apart from some
banner advertising. We felt the exact opposite:
that search quality was very poor, and that
awesome user experiences would clearly make
money.
Larry
Page - Google
- Internet
- Money
- Search
- Technology
- Focus
- Advertising
I have always believed that technology should
do the hard work - discovery, organization,
communication - so users can do what makes
them happiest: living and loving, not messing
with annoying computers! That means making
our products work together seamlessly.
Larry
Page - Technology
- Internet
- Communication
- Computers
- Products
The ultimate search engine would basically
understand everything in the world, and
it would always give you the right thing.
And we're a long, long ways from that.
Larry
Page - Technology
- Internet
- Intelligent
- Google
- Search
The Star Trek computer doesn't seem that
interesting. They ask it random questions,
it thinks for a while. I think we can do
better than that.
Larry
Page - Technology
- Internet
- Questions
- Computers
I want Wipro to be among the top ten IT
companies in the world.
Azim
Premji - Companies
- Technology
- Ambition
Upwards of two hundred species.. mostly
of the large, slow-breeding variety.. are
becoming extinct here every day because
more and more of the earth's carrying capacity
is systematically being converted into human
carrying capacity. These species are being
burnt out, starved out, and squeezed out
of existence.. thanks to technologies that
most people, I'm afraid, think of as technologies
of peace. I hope it will not be too long
before the technologies that support our
population explosion begin to be perceived
as no less hazardous to the future of life
on this planet than the endless production
of radioactive wastes.
Daniel
Quinn - Nature
- Life
- People
- World
- Technology
- Peace
- Environmental
Technology is always evolving, and companies.. not just search companies..
can't be afraid to take advantage of change.
Eric
Schmidt - Technology
- Change
- Improving
- Companies
We don’t have a traditional strategy process, planning process like
you’d find in traditional technical companies. It allows Google to innovate
very, very quickly, which I think is a real strength of the company.
Eric
Schmidt - Technology
- Companies
- Planning
- Innovation
I believe that this notion of self-publishing, which is what Blogger and
blogging are really about, is the next big wave of human communication. The last
big wave was Web activity. Before that one it was e-mail. Instant messaging was
an extension of e-mail, real-time e-mail.
Eric
Schmidt - Technology
- Internet
Information and communications technology unlocks the value of time, allowing
and enabling multi-tasking, multi-channels, multi-this and multi-that.
Li
Ka Shing - Technology
- Time
I believe that Silicon Valley is truly a place of excellence and the impact
of this tiny community on the world is completely disproportionate to its size.
We are the undisputed leaders of technological change. But with our abundance
of talent and resources, we also have the opportunity to be the pioneers of social
change and, ultimately, this may be our greatest contribution.
Jeff
Skoll - Business
Ethics - Social
- Belief
- Change
- Silicon
Valley - World
- Technology
- Talent
- Opportunity
The insanity of the collective egoic mind, amplified by science and technology,
is rapidly taking our species to the brink of disaster. Evolve or die: that is
our only choice now.
Eckhart
Tolle - Life
- Insanity
- Ego - Technology
- Death
I am guided by the vision of what I believe this show can be. Originally
our goal was to uplift, enlighten, encourage and entertain through the medium
of television. Now, our mission statement for The Oprah Winfrey Show is to use
television to transform people's lives, to make viewers see themselves differently
and to bring happiness and a sense of fulfillment into every home.
Oprah
Winfrey - Encouragement
- Happiness
- Technology
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