Technology Quotes

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

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

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 microprocessor is a miracle.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

The best way to create value in the 21st century is to connect Creativity with Technology.

We limit how much technology our kids use at home.

I'm going to destroy Android, because it's a stolen product. I'm willing to go thermonuclear war on this.

Computers themselves, and software yet to be developed, will revolutionize the way we learn.

You'll see more and more perfection of that - computer as servant. But the next thing is going to be computer as a guide or agent.

People say sometimes, "You work in the fastest-moving industry in the world." I don't feel that way. I think I work in one of the slowest. It seems to take forever to get anything done.

Technology is nothing. What's important is that you have a faith in people, that they're basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they'll do wonderful things with them.

It's technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the results that make our heart sing.

Everybody in this country should learn how to program a computer, because it teaches you how to think.

You go to your TV to turn your brain off. You go to the computer when you want to turn your brain on.