Eckhard Pfeiffer Quotes

Over my career, I'd say the last 25 years; we've gone from music and computer being for 10 people in the world to having personal computers, to now being able to do amazing things on your iPhone, or with Rock Band. So, right now there's enormous capability with technology in our devices that everybody has access to.

Microsoft was founded with a vision of a computer on every desk, and in every home. We've never wavered from that vision.

Of all the inventions of humans, the computer is going to rank near or at the top as history unfolds and we look back. It is the most awesome tool that we have ever invented. I feel incredibly lucky to be at exactly the right place in Silicon Valley, at exactly the right time, historically, where this invention has taken form.

Today, the PC is often still considered just a tool, but together we need to make it a lot more than that. We need to make it a path to experiences.

Cisco projects that in 2020, now just five years away, there will be seven billion people on the earth and 50 billion devices connected to the Internet. Six-and-a-half devices on average per person. As a father of five young adults and teenagers, I think we are - in my household, we've exceeded the 6.5 number.

No consumer product improves more drastically, year after year, than the computer.

Well, the thought that everybody might have a personal computer at their desk or their home was certainly not on the mainstream of anybody's activity at that time.

This revolution, the information revoultion, is a revolution of free energy as well, but of another kind: free intellectual energy. It's very crude today, yet our Macintosh computer takes less power than a 100-watt bulb to run it and it can save you hours a day. What will it be able to do ten or 20 years from now, or 50 years from now?

The Cube is approximately - it's around the same age as the Internet, and in that time, we had no personal computers yet.

Bill Gates did predict that computers for people made sense because he wrote a basic.

If the Internet turns out not to be the future of computing, we're toast. But if it is, we're golden.

Software increasingly defines the world around us.

Workday is constantly looking into the future and, you know, building applications that stay modern and relevant.

We're creating this new breed of techies who are going to be the ones starting the tech companies of the future.

That we plug in carts or CDs with megabytes of memory when only yesterday we were happy to have 64K or 128K in our Apple II and PC workhorses... that's nothing short of phenomenal.

I'm fascinated by technology and how it is changing the way we live and view our humanity.

There is this broad, broad recognition of how technology is enabling new things. Companies that never paid attention to computers in any form now see digital technology as creating threats and opportunities for them.

Computers are merely ingenious devices to fulfill unimportant functions. The computer revolution is an explosion of nonsense.

I'm not against the technology at all, I just don't like to use it if it's just to mimic what you can do with traditional methods.

Software is the magic thing whose importance only goes up over time.

I'm a low-tech man in a high-tech world.

Software touches all of these different things you use, and tech companies are revolutionizing all different areas of the world...from how we shop to how farming works, all these things that aren't technical are being turned upside down by software. So being able to play in that universe really makes a difference.

The whole history of computers is rampant with cheerleading at best and bigotry at worst.

This is a software-powered world.

People thought this was a computer IT gig, and that will flow through those nerdy departments and it won't come into fashion photography, it won't come into television, it won't come into my daily communications, it won't come into my telephone, my microphone, my light control, my microwave radio, my - I mean, just name it.