Computing Paradigm Quotes

The desktop metaphor was invented because one, you were a stand-alone device, and two, you had to manage your own storage. That's a very big thing in a desktop world. And that may go away. You may not have to manage your own storage. You may not store much before too long.

We think touch is short-term. The mouse and keyboard were stable for 25 years, but I think touch will be stable for 10 years. Post-touch will be stable for a really long time, longer than 25 years.

When I started at Microsoft, I was lucky enough to be part of the rise of the client-server paradigm.

We've spent the last 30 years focusing on the T in IT, and we'll spend the next 30 years focusing on the I.

The interesting thing about cloud computing is that we've redefined cloud computing to include everything that we already do.

I think everybody understands how important the cloud is.

Cloud represents the maturation of the IT industry.

We believe the future of computing should be natural.

The Analytical Engine does not occupy common ground with mere 'calculating machines.' It holds a position wholly its own, and the considerations it suggests are more interesting in their nature.

Customers get vested in certain paradigms of computing, and those large vendors will try to keep those customers in those paradigms of computing for as long as possible. That's where you basically get the term cash cow.

There will be no new architecture for computing for the next 1,000 years.

There's going to be a symbiotic relationship between the edge and the cloud.

The good news is we had this idea of cloud computing. The bad news is we were 10 years too early.

The old computing was about what computers could do; the new computing is about what users can do. Successful technologies are those that are in harmony with users' needs. They must support relationships and activities that enrich the users' experiences.

There seems to be no mainframe explanation for the PC world in which we're living.