Quotes About Technology

The Web is functionally fantastic, but it's a tool. A terrific place to present information but not, at this stage, a tenably emotional location.

Nostalgia isn't a business model

Innovation, I believe, is the only way that America will regain the initiative in a global dynamic economy.

Most of the effort in the software business goes into the maintenance of code that already exists.

If you are in this business long enough, you hear about a thousand things that are going to kill you. Open source? Yeah, we are not dead yet. Cloud? That's not new; it's a new name.

Use of paper has continued to soar. It is as though paper is taking its revenge on the futurists - not that any futurist has ever lost business because of a wrong prediction.

Content has always driven the business. Now it's no longer the queen to a king of distribution; it is the king, king, king, because the consumer has complete choice.

People can get information - on entertainment, politics, finance - much easier than before. That will change the way people do business, the way people live.

Eventually you won't think of 'the Internet business.' You'll think of it more like news, weather, sports, but even that taxonomy isn't clear.

Just as the Internet drops transaction and collaboration costs in business and government, it also drops the cost of dissent, of rebellion, and even insurrection.

Banking is a branch of the information business.

So I, I knew something in a business sense about semiconductors and I appreciated their possibilities.

For whatever reason somebody can be convinced to buy a PC, it opens up a whole new market for all of us in the software business.

Microsoft has had clear competitors in the past. It's a good thing we have museums to document that.

Most of our competitors were one-product wonders... They would do their one product, but never get their engineering sorted out.

Hollywood is the only industry, even taking in soup companies, which does not have laboratories for the purpose of experimentation.

But maybe because the dot-com world gives people positions at a younger age, and many women are prominent in this business, it will help change the view about who can run big companies.

In 15 years from now half of US universities may be in bankruptcy ... in the end I'm excited to see that happen. So pray for Harvard Business School if you wouldn't mind.

Napster was predicating its business model on violation of copyright.

I know a smart business decision when I see one - choosing open standards is | a very smart business decision indeed.

What happens when you combine blogs, Google and millions of dissatisfied customers? An e-mob.

For a business plan written when the hardware was a wire-wrapped board and the software was three demos on a graphics substrate, it was pretty close.

When the Chinese told Google that they had to block sites or they couldn't do [business] in their country, they managed to figure out how to block sites.

It was something of a personal challenge for me to come up with a business suitable for the Internet world and the Internet age.