Carly Fiorina Quotes

I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.

We fully expect our competitors to join us in embracing open standards with their next redesigns.

Of course, all of the software I write runs on Linux; that's the beauty of standards, and of cross-platform code. I don't have to run your OS, and you don't have to run mine, and we can use the same applications anyway!

My impression is that a really, really high-order concern for the whole development community is interoperability and consistency.

Innovators are developing the ideas and bringing them to life in amazing new applications. All we, as an industry, need to do now is focus on standardizing the interfaces to ensure interoperability - and stand out of the way.

The nicest thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from.

When I helped to develop the open standards that computers use to communicate with one another across the Net, I hoped for but could not predict how it would blossom and how much human ingenuity it would unleash.

I want to avoid locking people into solutions that work only with Postfix. People should have a choice in what software they want to use with Postfix, be it anti-virus or otherwise.

The idea is to have global standards. There is so much travel that if you just had a regional standard, it would probably ultimately have to be changed.

We tell anybody who asks that we think Apple is making a big mistake by not being compatible.

If someone had protected the HTML language for making Web pages, then we wouldn't have the World Wide Web.

I try to be objective about technology. Agnostic, in a sense. Whatever personal opinions I form tend to have more to do with what we find to do with the new thing.

There's a big tendency to gravitate toward a closed and proprietary approach too easily.

Email has the virtue - sounds like a bad thing, but it's the virtue of being the lowest common denominator messaging protocol. Everyone can have it. It can cross organizational boundaries. No one owns it. It's not some particular company's platform.

Well firstly, that points certainly at the need for international standards on biometrics that would move in the same direction so that we can have the same technical requirements.

Every time there's a new tool, whether it's Internet or cell phones or anything else, all these things can be used for good or evil. Technology is neutral; it depends on how it's used.

The web's strength lies precisely in its unique position as the world's first universal platform.

We may have to force people to get together in terms of picking a particular type of technology and starting to build to that technology, as opposed to everybody exercising their right to buy their own system, you know, at will.

With the increasing importance of standards for system-level objects such as COM and CORBA, it is particularly important that the C++ bindings to those be clean, well documented, and simple to use.

In most languages, 'control' is the first synonym for the word 'manage.' Control is about spotting and correcting deviations from pre-defined standards; thus to control, one must first constrain.

The dynamic with social is you tend not to have products with 30% market share. It's all or nothing. Email works because we have open standards that let you communicate across any email client.

I'm platform agnostic. I've been platform agnostic ever since I went online.

Industry leaders have the power to set standards.

Open rules! Open standards! Open findings! Open precedents!

A black public official must be held to the same standard [as anyone else] ... a lower standard would be patronizing, a higher standard would be racist.