Mark V. Hurd Quotes

I would say that in general, Cisco is a very strong research and development organization.

I look at Google and think they have a strong academic culture. Elegant solutions to complex problems.

The notion of what we're trying to do at AMD is about bringing out great technology, great products.

Hard systems are everything we're using right now - computers, phones, planes, the clothes you're wearing, the room you're in. Everything there involves 100% use of technology and expertise to make it, and nothing we make - including space exploration vehicles and so on - is complex. Everything we make is complicated. Nothing is self-renewing.

The point of an accelerator is to teach you about companies and business, not about technology.

I'm an engineer turned entrepreneur who's passionate about connection.

I learned to canoe at summer camp and thought I'd pursue Olympic whitewater canoeing. In my senior year of high school, I instead decided to attend M.I.T. I like to say I've had only two jobs in my life: whitewater canoeing instructor and wilderness guide in college, and C.E.O. of iRobot.

When my co-founder and I first had the idea for IronPort, an email security company, we triangulated a list of the 20 most relevant people in email - former CEOs, open source technologists, investors and thought leaders.

The best people in this industry [technology] are the people who are trying to solve big problems.

We're just technologists.

Nvidia's CEO, Jen-Hsun Huang, is an engineer and a chip designer. He cofounded Nvidia and still runs it like a startup.

I am excited to be working with the dedicated Four Seasons board and leadership team to build upon their reputation for industry-leading customer experiences while seeking out innovative ways to leverage technology that will help spur additional growth.

Our main funders... a lot of them are entrepreneurs and technologists themselves as well and familiar with iterative development processes.

I'm really interested in fashion and technology and kind of just want to be at a place that's innovative and new, where I can actually implement change and have a voice.

The only thing that was in my mind when we made that first phone call was, 'Is it going to work?' We had all these parts hand soldered together, engineers standing by with the soldering iron - just in case.

You want to be awesome in Qualcomm.

F1's ability to problem-solve is second to none and our ability to make rapid prototype parts is again second to none.

I was the CEO of Justin.tv, and my cofounders were senior engineers there. We came up with the idea at Justin.tv in the fall of 2010.

Talent is what drives technology companies.

Microsoft is a company that manages imagination.

Only our company and a handful of others are poised to write the future.

If Honda does not race, there is no Honda.

Every girl deserves to take part in creating the technology that will change our world and change who runs it.

Our friends up north spend over five billion dollars on research and development and all they seem to do is copy Google and Apple.

I am full of admiration for the technologists who have developed all sorts of gadgets for the purpose of improving communications. However, I believe that all these fascinating machines are complementary to, and not substitutes for, books and the printed word.