Technology Quotes

The future of Windows is to let the computer see, listen and even learn.

Digital reading will completely take over. It's lightweight and it's fantastic for sharing. Over time it will take over.

Digital technology has several features that can make it much easier for teachers to pay special attention to all their students.

Google's done a super good job on search; Apple's done a great job on the IPod.

I'm never fully satisfied with any Microsoft product.

Apple has always leveraged technologies that the PC industry has driven to critical mass - the bus structures, the graphics cards, the peripherals, the connection networks, things like that - so they're kind of in the PC ecosystem and kind of not.

People don't want lots and lots of single purpose devices. They do not want to have to learn how to set up something for photos, another thing for music, another thing for video.

You can always think of something like the Xbox 360 as a super set-top box that can do everything the set-top box does, but then have the graphics to do the games as well.

If you have 50 different plug types, appliances wouldn't be available and would be very expensive. But once an electric outlet becomes standardized, many companies can design appliances, and competition ensues, creating variety and better prices for consumers.

Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes.

There's no magic line between an application and an operating system that some bureaucrat in Washington should draw.

The way to be successful in the software world is to come up with breakthrough software, and so whether it's Microsoft Office or Windows, its pushing that forward. New ideas, surprising the marketplace, so good engineering and good business are one in the same.

Technology is unlocking the innate compassion we have for our fellow human beings.

The microprocessor is a miracle.

Software innovation, like almost every other kind of innovation, requires the ability to collaborate and share ideas with other people, and to sit down and talk with customers and get their feedback and understand their needs.

The typical project design time for a large company like IBM - and they keep track of this - is a little over four years.

I have a particular relationship with Vinod Khosla because he's got a lot of very interesting science-based energy startups.

There are people who don't like capitalism, and people who don't like PCs. But there's no-one who likes the PC who doesn't like Microsoft.

I was lucky to be involved and get to contribute to something that was important, which is empowering people with software.

Internet TV and the move to the digital approach is quite revolutionary. TV has historically has been a broadcast medium with everybody picking from a very finite number of channels.