Samuel J. Palmisano Quotes

Everything is going to be connected to cloud and data... All of this will be mediated by software.

If we're trying to build a world-class News Feed and a world-class messaging product and a world-class search product and a world-class ad system, and invent virtual reality and build drones, I can't write every line of code. I can't write any lines of code.

No new projects at the moment. There are restrictions to how much I can take on. And I need to finish those that I am committed to do before thinking ahead. But I'd rather they take final shape before we talk of them.

I worked in IT for about three years for a tiny firm with ten other people.

In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.

Workflow and usability are not afterthoughts; they impact the core of any project and dictate how it should be engineered.

Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.

When you take on a project, you have to be certain that you can make the best version of whatever it is you're given.

If you're running an engineering or finance company, all companies depend on ideas and ingenuity. I think the principles of creative leadership apply everywhere, whether it's an advertising company or whether you're running a hospital.

How can you be on top of the things you do? I think when you are involved in a business, first of all you need to know the business. After that you know the business, you can - the numbers tell you what is happening. You can read with the numbers.

About half my time is spent on business operation type stuff.

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

Everybody in the real world will agree - the moment a project is behind deadline, quality assurance tends to go out the window.

Building technical systems involves a lot of hard work and specialized knowledge: languages and protocols, coding and debugging, testing and refactoring.

We hope that there will be better policy-making and hope to see projects implemented. We have lots of information that can be used for the implementation of projects.

We had to depend on other institutions to do research on our behalf. We had to use the information that already existed to craft the best practices to distribute throughout the country. And we had to do all of that in ten months.

I'm a technical manager, but I don't have to take care of people. I only have to worry about technology itself.

In setting goals and executing a strategy, Wanda is sophisticated. We have good systems and departments. If targets are not reached, a yellow light goes off.

I basically wrote the code and the specs and documentation for how the client and server talked to each other.

The biggest fragility in a project is often just the inability to be able to explain to people why you are doing it, and when you're going to do it, and what's going to happen.

How can I run an agency at the same time?

You can’t really understand the challenges involved with any major tech project until you start trying to build it.

Our business model is primarily that of consulting, engineering, system integration, and managed services.

Tactical Work is the work you do every day in your business to generate income, along with all of the operational, financial, and management tasks that entails.

Too often in business, only financial data is gathered - and then it is distributed only to management. Other key indicators that relate to performance areas also need to be tracked. Information on performance has to be made available to those people who can best use it - those doing the work.