Masayoshi Son Quotes

Uber exists because of mobile telephones.

Being Uber means being efficient.

When you think about Uber and Airbnb and the other companies that are turning things upside down, Uber isn't big 'cause they ran a lot of ads. They're big because someone took out their iPhone and said to their friend, watch this, and pressed a button and a car pulled up.

Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering.

With tough interpretation of taxi and zoning regulations, neither Uber nor Airbnb would have gotten started. By the time many cities recognized their existence, both were fairly large and had the political support of their customers.

When I see some of the work in the commercial PC sector, some of our top focus is in India.

What's most revolutionary about Uber is not the tool that consumers use but the fact that the only equipment needed by its drivers is their iPhone.

The age of access being offered by taxi-hailing apps like Uber and Ola is the biggest potential threat to auto industry.

Uber was probably the perfect inflection point of a world that is changing so fast in terms of consumers that are... pushing that button and using the mobile phone as the remote control for their life.

What I believe is that Nintendo is a very unique company because it does its business by designing and introducing people to hardware and software - by integrating them, we can be unique.

Google has placed its faith in data, while Apple worships the power of design. This dichotomy made the two companies complementary. Apple would ship the phones and computers, while Google would provide Maps, Search, YouTube, and other web tools that made the devices more useful.

It's not enough to have a hacker culture anymore. You have to have a design culture, too.

I've always been a proponent of the idea that technology doesn't matter to game design. The example I always like to point out is 'Tetris,' one of the greatest games ever made.

Like many people out there, I'm inspired by the level of attention to detail, design and execution of Apple products.

My goal is to simplify complexity. I just want to build stuff that really simplifies our base human interaction.

One thing most people don't know is that Steve Jobs is an exceptional designer.

Apple took the edge off the word 'computer.'

Most of the fans have ideas about their perfect phone. But many of them can't do it because building a phone is tough. So they would give us feedback about the features that they think should be included in our next model. And if we incorporated that in our new phone, they will share the good news with their friends.

The wonderful thing about Apple technology is just how intuitive it is.

The reason that Apple is able to create products like the iPad is because we've always tried to be at the intersection of technology and the liberal arts.

The Internet has created an incredible democratization of the architecture industry.

We're very simple people at Apple. We focus on making the world's best products and enriching people's lives.

The railway, the steamship, and there telegraph are rapidly mobilizing the people of the earth. The nations are coming our of their isolation, and distances which separated the different races are rapidly giving way before the extension of communication.

In many ways, we look at Uber as the safety net for a city.

IT put India on the map of the world and told Indians that they are somebody in the world. There is something about technology that is very empowering: 'We are designing software for the best companies in the world.'