Jeff Bezos Quotes

Practically everyone is going to have a general purpose computer in their pocket, it's so easy to underestimate that, that has got to be the really, really big one.

I think most people in the developed world would admit to carrying some sort of handheld device, whether it's a laptop or a cell phone, at all times.

There's been a big evolution since the days of personal computing. People had a concept of one computing device per family or maybe per person. We've clearly evolved to computing devices becoming more personal.

As more and more of our world becomes part of the wireless network, I see the mobile phone becoming a central command station for everything around us.

In my view the tablet and the PC are different. You can do things with the tablet if you are not encumbered by the legacy of the PC.

Apple has long been a leading innovator of mobile technology; I myself own an iPhone.

What the iPad does is it opens people's minds to a new way of doing things. They're actually thirsting for it.

We do a lot of consumer research. Consumers believe the smartphone will be the remote, meaning that it will orchestrate a lot of things. So maybe you will take your connectivity with you to the car.

Ambient Devices is what I call part of the Third Wave of Internet devices.

I've become President of the Author's Guild, and, in part because they thought I had to know what I was talking about and also as a sort of coronation present, they got me an iPad. And I have to tell you, I'm crazy about it. It's got some bugs, but it's basically replaced my laptop. I'm very happy with it.

The Mac defined 'personal technology', and the iPhone defines 'intimate technology' as a convergence of communications, content and location.

The cloud-powered smartphone and tablet, as productivity tools, are transforming the world around us along with the implied changes in how we work to be mobile and more social.

Just the idea to have everything you need essentially stored in one piece of portable technology is very exciting.

Windows 8 is key to the future, the Surface computer.

I think that in a weird way, as technology gets more sophisticated, people have become less aware of it. It's become part of our day to day life. We're seeing large-scale projection mapping, like on buildings. There's video everywhere. It's much less noticeable that we're actually looking at technology.

The PC is becoming a truck. Everybody is using a tablet and a phone.

As Apple continues to release new styles of netbooks, laptops, and even desktops with untold movie-watching and game-playing capabilities, I wouldn't be surprised to see the iPhone operating system running on them - and the Macintosh eventually becoming a thing of the past.

Anything can change, because the smartphone revolution is still in the early stages.

In this new world, with smartphones and tablets and cloud computing, things are moving around fast.

The computer has moved to the palm of our hands now.

We're seeing a lot of major companies as well as startups coming up with smartwatches that replicate a lot of the functionality you might have in your smartphone. Will it be as big a market as smartphones? Probably not, but it still can be a very substantial market.

I carry my iPad and laptop with me everywhere.

Right now, offline and online are coming together because of smartphones.

The world going 100 percent mobile actually means the world going 100 percent trackable.

I believe that tablets - and especially the iPad - are extremely versatile and productive tools for consumers, schools and businesses and are better for many tasks than the PC or the smartphone.