Ted Waitt Quotes

I look at technology as a way for us to engage with and help our customers. If we don't do it, someone else is going to.

I'm known for being very enthusiastic about using technology. A lot of the attraction is the way that it streamlines the process and takes a lot of the drudgery out of it.

What the iPad does is it opens people's minds to a new way of doing things. They're actually thirsting for it.

We do a lot of consumer research. Consumers believe the smartphone will be the remote, meaning that it will orchestrate a lot of things. So maybe you will take your connectivity with you to the car.

Everything we can think of that should have a processor, and they'll all be connected. People talk about fridges re-ordering when you run out of milk, but it's going to be much bigger than that. The transition to this world will require a huge number of applications to be developed, and that's a huge opportunity for Infosys.

An innovation will get traction only if it helps people get something that they're already doing in their lives done better.

Ambient Devices is what I call part of the Third Wave of Internet devices.

The pace of digital innovation is astonishing. It's impossible to imagine life without the web, smartphones, social networks. And yet the consumer products and everyday objects all around us are still essentially dumb.

People get comfortable with technologies.

We have millions of users around the globe who do amazing things with our technology every day.

The most important thing about technology is that it can seamlessly work its way into your routine and your life.

It's been amazing to step out of a bottle of ink on to an iPad. There's no better time than right now to embrace this fabulous sandpit of technology. Because intuitively, at the touch of a finger, most of it is possible.

You can have the best technology in the world, but if you don't have a community who wants to use it and who are excited about it, then it has no purpose.

A new model is starting to take root and grow, one in which consumers have more choices, more tools, more information, and more power to guide these choices. I call this emerging model 'The Mesh.'

I think we all realize the consumer has taken control, and they're not giving it back. So as every new technology comes forward, we have to figure out how to integrate it.

Never use technology for technology's sake.

I have been working with Hive, part of British Gas, on reinventing the thermostat. Now you can control your heating at the press of a button on your phone. As I say, design should permeate every part of society.

I think that we're on a path that Apple was determined to be on since the '70s, which was to try and make technology relevant and personal.

As more and more of our world becomes part of the wireless network, I see the mobile phone becoming a central command station for everything around us.

I think that integrating information to everyday objects will not only help us to get rid of the digital divide, the gap between these two worlds, but will also help us, in some way, to stay human, to be more connected to our physical world.

I'm most comfortable at the intersection of technology and helping people; that's really what gets me going and gets me excited and what I get most passionate about.

I envision a world where our smartphone is central to our lives in a non-obtrusive and intelligent way.

We hope to be a leader in the convergence of consumer electronics and communications.

You don't need to be an engineer or a tech person to benefit from technology. You can hire them.

In 1997, clients balked at self-ordering. They thought it was beneath them. But in 1998, a sea change in perception came, thanks to the rise of the Net and online trading. The concept of doing it yourself was not crazy.