Quotes About Innovation

Companies that make keys, credit card companies, any company in the service business - anything to do with a consumer is probably a software company.

In 2007 WebEx was acquired by Cisco and I became Cisco's Corporate VP of engineering, in charge of collaboration software.

Some law firms now use artificial intelligence software to scan and read mountains of legal documents, work that previously was performed by highly paid human lawyers.

When people think of the oil industry, they think of Rockefeller, much like when people think of the software industry, they think of Bill Gates.

We need to get smarter about hardware and software innovation in order to get the most value from the emerging Internet of Things.

Writing genetic code like we do software will usher in a completely new way of living for all of us. When this happens, our society will be as fundamentally changed as we have seen from the invention of computers.

Many composers use software to write music - programs like Finale or Sibelius. There are also recording programs. I should say I'm still very old-fashioned, I still use pencil and paper. But almost every composer I know does it the 'new way.'

More and more major businesses and industries are being run on software and delivered as online services - from movies to agriculture to national defense.

Cable boxes are, almost without exception, awful. They're under-powered computers running very badly designed software. Their channel guides are slow, poorly laid out, and usually riddled with ads.

There's nothing more frustrating than seeing cynics sit there and say, 'Well, nobody can make any more money because Microsoft and Intel own everything.' Is the software industry mature, or is it embryonic? I would say it's embryonic. There will be a hundred more Microsofts, not just one.

We have most of the software industry running Autonomy.

The single most important thing for any processor is getting adoption by software developers.

Most of what we do is software, Internet, and mobile. A fair amount of that is transactional.

Great graphics requires more than just high-performance hardware. Gamers know software is just as important.

For us, the real goal is to make it so that the software ecosystem is as healthy as possible.

Writing software that's safe even in the presence of bugs makes the challenge even more interesting.

In the future, you won't buy artists' works; you'll buy software that makes original pieces of 'their' works, or that recreates their way of looking at things. You could buy a Shostakovich box, or you could buy a Brahms box. You might want some Shostakovich slow-movement-like music to be generated. So then you use that box.

Apple's advantage is that it designs and builds software together, so if the software isn't excellent, it does the superlative hardware a disservice.

Our lives and our culture have been significantly changed and improved by hardware, software, and services developed by immigrants.

I'm really good at making software for publishing.

United Bank Card, I picked that name in 1999 because it sounded like an established financial institution, and I was 16 years old in my parents' basement, so I needed a name like that. The moment we started building our own hardware and software and had our point-of-sale capabilities by 2008, that was the last message we wanted to send.

In software design, it's all about making a guess, trying it, and then learning from the experience.

Right at the start, when I was about 13 or 14, I only had an Amiga 500 Plus running a bit of tracker software called OctaMED. My brother was big into his computers, and when he moved up to a proper PC, I took charge of the Amiga.

At Microsoft, the magic of software is used to take on very interesting challenges.