Ruth Porat Quotes

When I think about developing solutions, I think about how we can use technology to make a difference.

The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn't think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential.

My little self-analysis is that consumer technology is the closest thing we have to magic. You push a button and something happens at your command. The things that get me fired up the most have always been the things that seem the most magical.

Everywhere we look, technology has changed our daily lives - from the way we pay our bills, to the way we buy plane tickets or keep in touch with friends and family.

Growing up in Silicon Valley, during my time at Morgan Stanley and as a member of Stanford's Board, I've had the opportunity to experience firsthand how tech companies can help people in their daily lives.

My view is we should be doing everything we can to come up with ways of exploiting the current technology effectively.

With the way everything's going now and the way that technology is going, you can do a lot of things with a lot of different new materials.

Technology is driving the innovation. Technology is driving the creativity. Technology and the use of that is going to determine our workers' ability to compete in the 21st century global marketplace.

We have millions of users around the globe who do amazing things with our technology every day.

The most important thing about technology is that it can seamlessly work its way into your routine and your life.

The rise of Google, the rise of Facebook, the rise of Apple, I think are proof that there is a place for computer science as something that solves problems that people face every day.

There is a constant need for new systems and new software.

I've always been at the intersection of computers and whatever they can revolutionize.

Science and technology is going to change every day for the rest of your lives.

There’s not a single aspect of human life that doesn’t have the potential to be totally transformed by these technologies in the future.

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

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.

I've always had a passion for the tech industry, and I like to help build interesting products.

I'm most comfortable at the intersection of technology and helping people; that's really what gets me going and gets me excited and what I get most passionate about.

The luxury industry is being radically reshaped by technology-driven innovation.

Technology is impacting everything we do on a daily basis.

At its best, technology can empower people in extraordinary ways.

The need to go digital remains a top priority for clients, and we are investing aggressively to drive innovation and deliver digital transformation.

Computerization eliminates the middleman

Earlier generations of machines decreased the complexity of tasks. In contrast, information technologies can increase the intellectual content of work at all levels. Work comes to depend on an ability to understand, respond to, manage, and create value from information.