I'm always trying to think of ways to make something more efficient. If I have to do something once, that's fine. If I have to do it twice, I'm kind of annoyed. And if I have to do it three times, I'm going to try to automate it.
At its best, technology can empower people in extraordinary ways.
In the early days at Asymetrix, we were focusing on business automation.
HubSpot is divided into 'neighborhoods,' each named after a section of Boston: North End, South End, Charlestown.
Back in my day, I would probe by hand. Now you can get commercial software that does the job for you.
Software is the language of automation.
Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.
I wanted to automate any part of my life that I could. And the over-the-top solutions are more fun than the useful ones.
Technology is only an enabler, which can help achieve the intention of the person who is using it.
We've been using C and C++ way too much - they're nice, but they're very close to the machine and what we wanted was to empower regular users to build applications for Linux.
Computing is no more about work - it's all about making work happen with computers.
Work has always been influenced by technology and will continue to be.
If we're going to be on this futuristic 3008 vibe, we need to step up our performance.
It didn't make a lot of sense for us to be doing Lotus Notes implementations.
It is not a coincidence that Fusion middleware and applications have the same name. We knew what we needed it to be.
The media's about to become a lot more effective.
Our Windows 10 experience is super polished, and it integrates all the community features seamlessly with the game experience.
I would have thought technology would have made it harder to do what I did.
