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I think everybody understands how important the cloud is.

First of all, we have infrastructure as a service, which Amazon has; we have platform as a service, which Microsoft has; we have software as a service; we have applications. Nobody has everything except us. We also have data as a service.

This whole cloud phenomenon is gaining steam pretty rapidly, and it's really become a strategic imperative for people.

The beautiful part of the cloud is, you know, it's unlimited capacity, in theory.

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

Cloud computing is the third wave of the digital revolution.

The enterprise cloud is a very secure cloud at this point.

As much as we can, we want to prevent people from having to think about how to keep and share their stuff.

The cloud has become the next-generation supercomputer, and the smartphone has provided the revolution to spur its use.

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

Dropbox looks really simple to the end user and is extremely magical and just works. But under the hood, the complexity of the technology is huge. The amount of work it requires to store, scale and move this data is pretty intense.

We've been delivering cloud-based services for over a decade, with more than 30 million Intuit customers using offerings across a variety of desktop and mobile devices. The benefits are clear: online experiences are simply better for customer.

If we as a society do not understand 'the cloud,' in all its aspects - what data it holds, how it works, what the bargains are we make as we engage with it, we'll all be the poorer for it, I believe.

Why is Cloud 9 so amazing? What is wrong with Cloud 8? That joke came off the top of my head, and the top of my head ain't funny!

In 2000, when my partner Ben Horowitz was CEO of the first cloud computing company, Loudcloud, the cost of a customer running a basic Internet application was approximately $150,000 a month.

The belief is more and more as we use iCloud services for documents and our photos and videos and music that perhaps the most price-conscious customers are able to live in an environment where they don't need gobs of local storage because these services are lightening the load.

Microsoft does platform, not really infrastructure, and they do a little bit of Saas.

There's nothing slowing down about the shift to the cloud. I don't see anything on the horizon that is changing that.

I am convinced that as we move more towards cloud services, there is going to be a greater need for connectivity.

The cloud scalability is just amazing. So if you are, as an example, an NGO, a social enterprise, if you really want to scale the world, the cloud is just amazing.

The smartphone created a huge economy, the cloud created a huge economy.

The debate between the cloud and on-premise is largely dead. The cloud has become mainstream.

I really worry about everything going to the cloud.

Today, you always know whether you are on the Internet or on your PC's hard drive. Tomorrow, you will not care and may not even know.

The mobile-first, cloud-first is a very rich canvas for innovation - it is not the device that is mobile, it is the person that is mobile.