Mike Krieger Quotes

Move fast with stable infrastructure.

Infrastructure web services had to happen.

The point is that you want to have a system that is responsive.

Technology is a continuum. It's constantly getting lower-cost and easier to use, and you see that, and that's true with our company.

Cloud represents the maturation of the IT industry.

Cloud is just emerging, but it's high growth.

Oracle will continue to componentize all of its solutions so we can work in a heterogeneous environment.

Small business owners and entrepreneurs worthy of the title need to build systems that replace themselves.

The cloud is one of the most extraordinary opportunities of our lifetime. If we're not investing now, we'll rue the day we didn't.

The last thing I want my robot to be is sarcastic. I want them to be pragmatic and reliable - just like my dishwasher.

My infrastructure must run brilliantly. My whole system must be different from what you can get anywhere else in Asia.

The whole idea behind virtual integration is that it lets you meet customers' needs faster and more efficiently than any other model. With vertical integration, you can be an efficient producer - as long as the world isn't changing very much.

In the cloud, customers don't want a six-month contract negotiation; that concept is absurd when you can implement a cloud-based suite from beginning to end in a month or a few months.

For us, just serving the market in the US and the UK, we can barely make the math work on an interesting business. My sense is that our clones and copycats are very manual. If they make it work, then congratulations to them!

With human inspectors, it's difficult to get even the same person to make consistent judgments.

This idea that we can take hundreds of thousands, which we've done so far, and scale it to millions and move them into a new workforce, this is really critical because Salesforce is a platform.

Whether you're a government entity, a large enterprise, or a startup, a true digital transformation takes advantage of technology to focus on the customer, automates work that does not need manual interference, and unleashes your people to truly make decisions that change the path of your company.

Cloud computing eliminates capital expenditure, so you can go global very quickly - you don't have to have extensive servers in every country.

Take the time to create an easy-flowing process that makes the sale, saves time, and gives you the best chance to scale a system that can pay off as you grow and scale.

Every problem is super-interesting and has its own nuances, and you solve it today, but you try to solve it with an architecture. You build a machine to solve the problems that are like it later. And then you move on to the next.

In the old days, I'd have to go as a company, buy computer resources, buy servers, buy storage, and lash it all together. It took a long time to stand up. Now, if I need, I can go to Amazon or Rackspace and buy some computer power nearly instantaneously.

As the number of people who work at Basecamp has grown, I've noticed places where we could use more features, like management, structure, and guidelines. I've also noticed places where we've overengineered ourselves and should pull back.

From the point of view of the people who are using the platform, one of the most valuable things about Java is the consistency, the interoperability.

Extra capacity makes manufacturing competitive, keeps pricing in control.

The cloud is this gigantic computing vehicle that delivers computing services to every single industry.