Alan Turing
MathematicianEnglish1912 · 20th century
3.5 · 60 votes · 143 reads
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Gianni Agnelli
BusinessmanItalian1921 · 20th century
Steve Jobs
BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century
4.6 · 41 votes
Steve Jobs
BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century
Steve Jobs
BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century
Steve Jobs
BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century
4.6 · 45 votes · 118 reads
Gianni Agnelli
BusinessmanItalian1921 · 20th century
- Computer science only indicates the retrospective omnipotence of our technologies. In other words, an infinite capacity to process data (but only data - i.e. the already given) and in no sense a new vision. With that science, we are entering an era of exhJean Baudrillard
PhilosopherFrench1929 · 20th century
3.9 · 61 votes · 51 reads
- Computers double their performance every month.
3.0 · 43 votes · 117 reads
- Eureka! - I have found it!Archimedes
MathematicianGreek-287 · 3rd century BC
3.3 · 20 votes · 193 reads
- For the first time we're allowing developers who don't work at Facebook to develop applications just as if they were. That's a big deal because it means that all developers have a new way of doing business if they choose to take advantage of it. There are
Mark ZuckerbergBusinessmanAmerican1984 · 20th century
3.5 · 41 votes · 109 reads
- Historically, privacy was almost implicit, because it was hard to find and gather information. But in the digital world, whether it's digital cameras or satellites or just what you click on, we need to have more explicit rules - not just for governments b
Bill GatesBusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century
5.0 · 42 votes · 141 reads
- I do everything on my phone as a lot of people do.Mark Zuckerberg
BusinessmanAmerican1984 · 20th century
5.0 · 40 votes · 171 reads
- I have a great respect for incremental improvement, and I've done that sort of thing in my life, but I've always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes. I don't know why. Because they're harder. They're much more stressful emotionally. And you uSteve Jobs
BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century
3.2 · 47 votes · 114 reads
- I like going to Burning Man, for example. An environment where people can try new things. I think as technologists we should have some safe places where we can try out new things and figure out the effect on society. What's the effect on people, without h
Larry PageBusinessmanAmerican1973 · 20th century
4.5 · 47 votes · 89 reads
- I think it's brought the world a lot closer together, and will continue to do that. There are downsides to everything; there are unintended consequences to everything. The most corrosive piece of technology that I've ever seen is called television - but tSteve Jobs
BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century
5.0 · 31 votes · 62 reads
- In Israel, a land lacking in natural resources, we learned to appreciate our greatest national advantage: our minds. Through creativity and innovation, we transformed barren deserts into flourishing fields and pioneered new frontiers in science and technoShimon Peres
PoliticianIsraeli1923 · 20th century
3.6 · 26 votes · 150 reads
- In the old generation, if one kid bought a PlayStation 2 and the other kid bought an Xbox, at his house you played PlayStation, at your house you played Xbox. Now that it's online, all those early buyers who... you want to play with, they've got their repBill Gates
BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century
3.0 · 35 votes · 132 reads
- Japan's very interesting. Some people think it copies things. I don't think that anymore. I think what they do is reinvent things. They will get something that's already been invented and study it until they thoroughly understand it. In some cases, they uSteve Jobs
BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century
3.5 · 61 votes · 35 reads
- Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.Alan Turing
MathematicianEnglish1912 · 20th century
4.6 · 49 votes · 63 reads
- Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.
3.3 · 64 votes · 125 reads
- Mobile is a lot closer to TV than it is to desktop.Mark Zuckerberg
BusinessmanAmerican1984 · 20th century
4.6 · 55 votes · 175 reads
- Paper is no longer a big part of my day. I get 90% of my news online, and when I go to a meeting and want to jot things down, I bring my Tablet PC. It's fully synchronized with my office machine, so I have all the files I need. It also has a note-taking pBill Gates
BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century
4.8 · 56 votes · 92 reads
- Pointing is a metaphor we all know. We've done a lot of studies and tests on that, and it's much faster to do all kinds of functions, such as cutting and pasting, with a mouse, so it's not only easier to use but more efficient.Steve Jobs
BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century
3.0 · 17 votes · 111 reads
- So let's not use a stylus. We're going to use the best pointing device in the world. We're going to use a pointing device that we're all born with - born with ten of them. We're going to use our fingers. We're going to touch this with our fingers. And weSteve Jobs
BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century
5.0 · 23 votes · 29 reads
- The desktop computer industry is dead. Innovation has virtually ceased. Microsoft dominates with very little innovation. That's over. Apple lost. The desktop market has entered the dark ages, and it's going to be in the dark ages for the next 10 years, orSteve Jobs
BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century
3.3 · 40 votes · 7 reads
- The engineering is long gone in most PC companies. In the consumer electronics companies, they don't understand the software parts of it. And so you really can't make the products that you can make at Apple anywhere else right now. Apple's the only companSteve Jobs
BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century
3.2 · 35 votes · 111 reads
- The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.Bill Gates
BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century
3.7 · 17 votes · 190 reads
- The over-all point is that new technology will not necessarily replace old technology, but it will date it. By definition. Eventually, it will replace it. But it's like people who had black-and-white TVs when color came out. They eventually decided whetheSteve Jobs
BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century
5.0 · 62 votes · 190 reads
- There will still be things that machines cannot do. They will not produce great art or great literature or great philosophy; they will not be able to discover the secret springs of happiness in the human heart; they will know nothing of love and friendshi
Bertrand RussellPhilosopherBritish1872 · 19th century
4.8 · 46 votes · 109 reads
- There's no other company that could make a MacBook Air and the reason is that not only do we control the hardware, but we control the operating system. And it is the intimate interaction between the operating system and the hardware that allows us to do tSteve Jobs
BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century
3.8 · 8 votes · 0 reads
- These technologies can make life easier, can let us touch people we might not otherwise. You may have a child with a birth defect and be able to get in touch with other parents and support groups, get medical information, the latest experimental drugs. ThSteve Jobs
BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century
3.8 · 32 votes · 63 reads
- This is what customers pay us for - to sweat all these details so it's easy and pleasant for them to use our computers. We're supposed to be really good at this. That doesn't mean we don't listen to customers, but it's hard for them to tell you what theySteve Jobs
BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century
3.2 · 7 votes · 10 reads
- We think the Mac will sell zillions, but we didn't build the Mac for anybody else. We built it for ourselves. We were the group of people who were going to judge whether it was great or not. We weren't going to go out and do market research. We just wanteSteve Jobs
BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century
4.6 · 29 votes · 120 reads
- We want to reinvent the phone. What's the killer app? The killer app is making calls! It's amazing how hard it is to make calls on most phones. We want to let you use contacts like never before - sync your iPhone with your PC or mac.Steve Jobs
BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century
3.0 · 7 votes · 193 reads
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