Jonathan Potter Quotes

We want to be able to service our customers more, like an Internet service. Our goal is to run one of the largest Internet services that enables people to use Windows on an everyday basis.

As much as we can, we want to prevent people from having to think about how to keep and share their stuff.

The Internet has crept up on us, and we need to know what it is and start looking at it. We have to decide which bits we want, which bits we don't, and how we're going to use them - and how we're going to put pressure on the people who deliver these goods to deliver what we really want.

One of the great things about an open system like Android is it addresses all ends of the spectrum. Getting great low-cost computing devices at scale to the developing world is especially meaningful to me.

Dropbox looks really simple to the end user and is extremely magical and just works. But under the hood, the complexity of the technology is huge. The amount of work it requires to store, scale and move this data is pretty intense.

Dell will participate in tablets and all sorts of client devices. Our main business is helping our customers secure, protect their data and access it from any device they want to.

We can't ever forget that the Internet now is just a staid utility. The exciting platforms are software applications that are very, very simple.

For systems in which you already have a lot of hardware and software, change is difficult. That's why apps are so popular.

I've always shied away from online data storage. I don't even use my employers' network drives for anything sensitive. I want to control access myself.

Computing is kind of a mess. Your computer doesn't know where you are. It doesn't know what you're doing. It doesn't know what you know.

Fairly cheap home computing was what changed my life.

It's important to be informed about issues like usability, reliability, security, privacy, and some of the inherent limitations of computers.

The value of having a computer, to me, is that it'll remember everything you do. It's a databank.

Everyone wants an iPhone, but it would be impossible to design an iPhone in China because it's not a product; it's an understanding of human nature.

Most of us have embraced digital technology, and depend on it more and more in our daily lives, both at home and at work.

What people don't consider is that tech is a really personal purchase. You spend so much time using it.

You can use cheap technology to get a great look.

We know businesses can't compete without reliable infrastructure.

If you have a billion people running a phone in every corner of their lives, and all these third-party apps and all these countries and all these languages, there are going to be issues.

You no longer can say that inside a company everything is trusted because you could bring in a contaminated device. And it's the same thing with data, because so much is no longer stored inside a company.

The Xbox is how the computer will be built in the next 20 years. More semiconductor capacity will go to the user experience.

The enterprise cloud is a very secure cloud at this point.

Technology evolves continuously with solutions getting richer. For example, many of the earlier e-commerce ventures failed because of weak technology infrastructure.

I believe technology will continue to become more affordable and more people will have the chance to use it. This will help more people get medical care and a good education.

Next time, please pay a fair price for the services you depend on. Those have a better chance of surviving the bubbles.