Ram Shriram Quotes

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.

There's a lot of opportunity on the web that you couldn't imagine some years ago. People are experimenting at a fast rate.

Remember when those CD-ROMs from AOL came in the mail almost every day? The company was considered ubiquitous, invincible. Former AOL CEO Steve Case was no less a genius than Mark Zuckerberg.

As a result, we will continue to see more innovation on the Internet and on mobile phones than on consoles.

No matter how much Bill Gates may claim otherwise, he missed the Internet, like a barreling freight train that he didn't hear or see coming.

Just as we could have rode into the sunset, along came the Internet, and it tripled the significance of the PC.

We're still in the first minutes of the first day of the Internet revolution.

New technologies, however remarkable they might seem, are fundamentally just tools made by people for people.

The Internet isn't just itself a revolution - it sometimes starts them, too.

Google is a company whose very existence depends on innovation - on inventing things that are new and didn't exist before - and on refining existing ideas and technologies to allow consumers to do things they couldn't do before.

Every time there is a major shift in technology, it's been hugely exciting and scary at the same time. I have seen some really drastic changes in technology, like shooting only film to video to digital.

I have sometimes thought the power of computers had exceeded our ability to use them, but Mr. Jobs and his team kept giving us devices that made indispensable things easier in ways you never thought of.

The World Wide Web went from zero to millions of web pages in a few years. Many revolutions look irrelevant just before they change everything swiftly.

The industries closest to Google - media, advertising, and entertainment - are affected first. But the avalanche that is Google and the internet will overtake all industries and institutions - carmakers, bankers, universities, government - as we undergo a fundamental restructuring of the economy and society. Every industry and institution would be wise to understand the need for handing over control, for transparency, for collaboration and speed.

This whole thing called the internet and all this other kind of stuff is about to go crazy. It's all going to change. But, you know what's not going to change? The talented people.

The last decade of Internet evolution has been marked by innovation. That innovation has been a consequence of the open and neutral access that the Internet has afforded up until now.

You have to combine both things: invention and innovation focus, plus the company that can commercialize things and get them to people.

For every door the computers have closed they have opened a new one.

Technology and capitalism are very much linked. I think that capitalism probably works best in a technologically progressing society.

Technology by default became the thing that was a new thing that had swept in and was altering it everything.

Technology is always evolving, and companies.. not just search companies.. can't be afraid to take advantage of change.

A computer is the most incredible tool we've ever seen. It can be a writing tool, a communications center, a supercalculator, a planner, a filer and an artistic instrument all in one, just by being given new instructions, or software, to work from. There are no other tools that have the power and versatility of a computer.

I'm more pro-technology than people probably realize.

Technology means the systematic application of scientific or other organized knowledge to practical tasks.

There are two things that have been happening over the last few decades in my opinion. First, there have been unbelievable, remarkable, pioneering advances in technology and, second, an equal amount of evolution in creativity. These two shifts are meeting at an intersection.