Meg Whitman Quotes

If you ask me what I worry about every morning when I wake up, it's that I don't understand future mainstream Internet users' habits.

I'm amazed at the amount of time people spend on the Internet.

The main Facebook usage is so big. About 20 percent of the time people spend on their phone is on Facebook.

Many online journals get the most hits of the day during the lunch hour.

Design, in its broadest sense, is the enabler of the digital era - it's a process that creates order out of chaos, that renders technology usable to business. Design means being good, not just looking good.

I definitely think there's some way to understand how people emotionally feel about somebody, but I don't think data collects it. They're not going to click your bit.ly link or click your TweetMeme retweet every time.

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

It's been amazing to step out of a bottle of ink on to an iPad. There's no better time than right now to embrace this fabulous sandpit of technology. Because intuitively, at the touch of a finger, most of it is possible.

I had learnt from my years of being in the services business, like networking and closely watching the early days of the Internet, that scale leads to many possibilities.

The Internet, the network of networks, is growing at an exponential pace. It's growing so fast, in fact, nobody really knows how many people use the Internet.

The Internet is the number one reason people buy PCs, and the number one use of PCs is on the Internet from our customer base.

The iPad is an amazing phenomenon. It is disrupting the enterprise. If you are an average employee, you can do anything for HR and Finance on the iPad.

Virtual reality is a tough sell for a software developer. They have to convince investors that not only are they going to build a good game, which is what they normally have to do, they have to convince them that it's going to be a good game and that virtual reality will be successful.

There are good things I see on Samsung phones that I wish were in my iPhone. I wish Apple would use them and could use them, and I don't know if Samsung would stop us.

Good design is good business.

Design must reflect the practical and aesthetic in business but above all... good design must primarily serve people.

I'm not looking to step in and make 'big, bold changes' - I think reddit is great, and the team has a lot of good features already in the pipeline to improve functionality for users and mods, help with subreddit discovery, improve the API, and help bring reddit to more people.

Never use technology for technology's sake.

Hard numbers tell an important story; user stats and sales numbers will always be key metrics. But every day, your users are sharing a huge amount of qualitative data, too - and a lot of companies either don't know how or forget to act on it.

For most companies, the hard thing is making the product work well enough to convince a single person at a time to switch to it.

I use my iPad many times a day, and it has cut my use of my laptop by more than half.

I think that we're on a path that Apple was determined to be on since the '70s, which was to try and make technology relevant and personal.

Rural technology is moving from kind of the back office to where everything, every company - sales, marketing, customer acquisition, new product development, media - all industries are becoming technology industries. And it's not information technology: it's business technology.

When you let travelers vote with their clicks, and you put that at the center of your decision-making, you build the product they want, and ultimately, their business will follow.

For a while there, companies were pushing technology on people and people were buying it. Now the consumer is really in the driver's seat. Now it's more of an overall solution: How can technology make your life better? How can it save you time?