Our economy, for a long while, has been transitioning from one reliant on industrial strength to one based on digital information. The next step in this transition is a digital economy shaped by connectivity.
The story of automation is the story of a one-way shift from human control to automatic control.
I have a television, but it's not connected to anything. I watch everything on my computer.
When albums gave way to CDs, people re-discovered their collection through their CDs.
I think 2012 is the year when consumers all around the world start saying no to feature phones and start saying yes to smartphones.
I'm a firm believer in everything going digital, in a matter of years. I wanted to kind of be one of the pioneers, one of the people that jump on that bandwagon early.
Kids today don't know that much about vinyl.
We shifted our philosophy from being a computer mapping group that would support planners to the idea of building actual software that would be well engineered. Because at that time, our software was not well-engineered at all; it was basically built with project funding and for project work, largely by ourselves.
My manager called me and said, 'Hey, there's a series at Neflix.' I'm like, 'Netflix? Oh, boy.' At that time, it was just a strange thing to hear. It's like going, 'There's a series at Blockbuster.'
Microsoft has no SQL Server developers. We have only Azure developers.
I think the media world is adjusting to the digital age.
My protest against digital has been me saying, "What's going to happen to film?" The result is that Kodak is out of business. That's a national tragedy. We've got to keep making film.
Perhaps at some time in the future, when you ask a friend to come up and look at your etchings, you will plug in your collection of video art.
I only use a Chromebook now. I never thought I could do that, but I love it.
The PC is becoming a truck. Everybody is using a tablet and a phone.
Earlier we used to play with snakes, but now we play with mouse. Through IT, India's youth has surprised the entire World!
Back in 1995, Bill Gates himself didn't understand that the internet was the direction computing was going.
Automobiles and the automotive industry are increasingly driven by data and computing. The saying 'What's under the hood' will increasingly refer to computing, not horsepower.
We're going from a world of customized software to standardized platforms.
When I was growing up, I could tell you everything about the three radio stations in Nashville. My 12- and 14-year-olds can't tell me one radio station here but can tell me three on Sirius.
The massive migration from dumb phones to smart phones is a great opportunity for young companies to take advantage of.
Just as our kids don't understand the difference between broadcast and cable, the line between TV and Internet TV is about to disappear.
The social network will be the new production line.
Technology is changing, so the viewership is getting broken up. My kids watch everything downloaded; they have no idea what the numbers or the names of the channels mean, except 'FX makes the show that I see on my computer.'
It's amazing how email has changed our lives. You ever get a handwritten letter in the mail today? 'What the? Has someone been kidnapped?'
