Bob Parsons Quotes

I have been quoted saying that, in the future, all companies will be Internet companies. I still believe that. More than ever, really.

I spent my whole career in the technology business, and I was convinced of the importance, at a grand scale, of the development of global connectivity.

Well, the future of the Internet is... Reality.

The Web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past.

As humanity goes online, it's becoming an extremely advanced, large-scale processing unit.

If you look at the major industries of the future, IT and mobile are way up there.

More and more major businesses and industries are being run on software and delivered as online services - from movies to agriculture to national defense.

Soon it won't be the Internet any more, it'll just be like air, like somehow they'll integrate the Internet into the air. And God's name will have ended up being 'Google,' because that's the way it worked out. It could have worked out that God's name ended up being 'Yahoo,' of course, but they lost out.

The coming changes in technology will be as profound as the creation of the Internet.

Digital economy is happening everywhere in the world.

You can't gaze in the crystal ball and see the future. What the Internet is going to be in the future is what society makes it.

There seems to be no limit to the exciting possibilities that come from combining technical innovations, the Internet, and social media.

The world is being re-shaped by the convergence of social, mobile, cloud, big data, community and other powerful forces. The combination of these technologies unlocks an incredible opportunity to connect everything together in a new way and is dramatically transforming the way we live and work.

Everything we can think of that should have a processor, and they'll all be connected. People talk about fridges re-ordering when you run out of milk, but it's going to be much bigger than that. The transition to this world will require a huge number of applications to be developed, and that's a huge opportunity for Infosys.

In simple terms, we are aligning our business today with the way we believe future systems are going to be designed, acquired and maintained.

The world that our children living in is going to be completely different because of big data.

Knowledge created a new culture of business derived from the information gathering and analysis capabilities of first the mainframe and then the PC.

Just like the Internet has transformed the media industry or the e-commerce industry, the software industry is also being affected dramatically by the Internet.

What amplifies the transformational power ahead is the confluence of two major technological currents today: the universal access to mobile computing and the pervasive use of social networks.

You have to wait for people to program you. The only difference is the amount of people that you're going to reach but that's going to even out in the next two or three years anyway. Computers are being bought faster than televisions right now.

We speak of 'software eating the world,' 'the Internet of Things,' and we massify 'data' by declaring it 'Big.' But these concepts remain for the most part abstract. It's hard for many of us to grasp the impact of digital technology on the 'real world' of things like rocks, homes, cars, and trees. We lack a metaphor that hits home.

I took computers in high school. I would do all my own programming, but I didn't see the future of computers for anything other than data processing. Who was going to use a computer for communications?

IBM has taken a leadership role in this area and is prepared to be a technology partner with companies around the world to take advantage of these new developments.

We need to get smarter about hardware and software innovation in order to get the most value from the emerging Internet of Things.

Now is the era of intellect, information and the Internet.