Bill Gates Quotes

I really worry about everything going to the cloud.

I think everybody understands how important the cloud is.

We have, of course, all of our Oracle technologies in our cloud. But I don't think you're going to see customers wanting to deal with 50 clouds or 40 clouds or anything like that.

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

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.

Candidly, when you go back to '07 or '08, it was hard to sell cloud. We started out by focusing on large enterprises on day one. Everybody thought cloud was for SMBs (small and mid-size businesses), but we made the leap that it was going to be for large enterprises, that they were going to replace their core systems.

Every customer wants to run on all the clouds.

The cloud services companies of all sizes; the cloud is for everyone. The cloud is a democracy.

Choose a firm cloud before it fall, and in it Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute.

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

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

The biggest mistake we made at WordPress.com in term of infrastructure was buying servers.

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.

I have to admit it: I'm not a huge fan of the cloud computing concept.

Oracle's got 100+ enterprise applications live in the #cloud; today, SAP's got nothin' but SuccessFactors until 2020.

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!

If you wanted to build an Internet startup in 2005, you had to buy your own servers and hire someone to manage it. Now, that's unheard of.

Microsoft has no SQL Server developers. We have only Azure developers.

In the post-Snowden world, you need to enable others to build their own cloud and have mobility of applications. That's both because of the physicality of computing - where the speed of light still matters - and because of geopolitics.

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.

I'm a very big proponent of cloud. We've used it a lot in private sector, and as far as we can tell, it is not only more efficient, it's probably also more secure for lots of very complicated technical reasons. I think it's a very important thing for government to do, and also to have systems that talk to each other.

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

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.

We've had a relationship with Microsoft for a while. It's bigger than just Xbox - we use Azure for some of our cloud stuff. PC Windows is a very big platform for us as well.