Quotes About IT

For many years, even as users became more sophisticated, personal computers took too much effort to use without problem-solving, keeping alive the yearning for greater simplicity. Microsoft's dominant Windows platform, in particular, was a home for all manner of bugs and problems that required IT people to straighten out.

Certainly after the tragedy in Neil's life, we were holding out hope for his recovery. It wasn't too promising at the time and obviously you get to the point of thinking that that is it.

We make a significant effort at Oracle to focus the organization on making customers successful in how they deploy Oracle technology and transform their business through IT.

Infosys, with the rest of the Indian IT industry, has transformed the image of India around the world, transformed the image of Indian professionals, creating huge opportunities for them.

WordPress makes it drop-dead easy to start a site. Take my advice and go do it.

But then, I suppose, that is the thing about the internet. It is just an accumulation of digital information, with no brains and no feelings – just like an IT person, in fact.

In movies, you shoot out of sequence, so the issue of reality is really taken out of it.

You don't get it boy... this isn't a mudhole... its an operating table. (KRAKKKKK) And I'm the surgeon.

The first time I ever saw a horror movie, I think I was in middle school, and we watched 'I Know What You Did Last Summer' and 'It' at a slumber party.

The cloud removes the barriers to entry associated with traditional IT investments - meaning even the smallest companies can benefit from enterprise-class services.

The nature of comedy is 'just do it.' But I think what's interesting about it is this joke has been around and why. And it's just saying what's wrong and how wrong can you be if you say it.

We couldn't bring the sheep back to life, so there was nothing for it but to eat the evidence.

Kindness and cruelty. He'll get that in bed next time. Dark laughter rolls. "Bring it on.

In the long term, a robust health IT network will support personalized treatment that adheres to proven best practices, and adapts to your personal health circumstances. The time will come when, whatever illness you may have, for your body type and health history, there will 'be an app for that' to keep you on your best path to wellness.

As a relative outsider to IT, I am able to view technology and our solutions from a business perspective, first and foremost.

we're hearing more lately: something called "DevOps." Maybe everyone attending this party is a form of DevOps, but I suspect it's something much more than that. It's Product Management, Development, IT Operations, and even Information Security all working together and supporting one another.

In ten years, I'm certain every COO worth their salt will have come from IT. Any COO who doesn't intimately understand the IT systems that actually run the business is just an empty suit, relying on someone else to do their job.

We also have all the calls going into the service desk, whether it's requests for something new or asking to fix something. But that list will be incomplete, too, because so many people in the business just go to their favorite it person. All that work is completely off the books.

Christopher Little states, "If there's anything that all horses [enterprise IT organizations] hate, it's hearing stories about unicorns [DevOps shops]. Which is strange, because horses and unicorns are probably the same species. Unicorns are just horses with horns.

four types of work: business projects, it Operations projects, changes, and unplanned work.

It is virtually impossible to make any business decision that doesn't result in at least one IT change.

DevOps shows how we optimize the IT value stream, converting business needs into capabilities and services that provide value for our customers.

the four types of work: business projects, it Operations projects, changes, and unplanned work.

CIO stands for "Career Is Over." And VPs of IT Operations don't last much longer.