Aaron Levie Quotes

Most of the fans have ideas about their perfect phone. But many of them can't do it because building a phone is tough. So they would give us feedback about the features that they think should be included in our next model. And if we incorporated that in our new phone, they will share the good news with their friends.

At Imgur, we need a solid product that works on various platforms, so we're looking at iOS, Android, front end, back end, and devops.

From the point of view of the people who are using the platform, one of the most valuable things about Java is the consistency, the interoperability.

Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material.

In a user lead model, users are bringing in their own technology... and you can build software then, around the user.

We're going from a world of customized software to standardized platforms.

Computer science needs to be part of the core curriculum - like algebra, biology, physics, or chemistry. We need all schools to teach it, not just 10%.

If something's expensive to develop, and somebody's not going to get paid, it won't get developed. So you decide: Do you want software to be written, or not?

Humanizing technology is about taking what's already natural about the human-tech experience and building technology seamlessly in tandem with it.

Microsoft is a company that manages imagination.

Let's face it, we're all clones nowadays. We've all got the same archives, we've all got the same Hyundai, we've all got the same Mac or PC components, and we're all being told the same news stories globally.

There's only four things we do better than anyone else: music movies microcode (software) high-speed pizza delivery

We want Facebook to be one of the best places people can go to learn how to build stuff.

The hardest single part of building a software system is deciding precisely what to build.

That's the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they really hate is lousy programmers.

Reality is the temporary resultant of continuous struggles between rival gangs of programmers.

Programming is all about numbers.

To me, the future is personalization .

A great lathe operator commands several times the wage of an average lathe operator, but a great writer of software code is worth 10,000 times the price of an average software writer.

Whether you want to uncover the secrets of the universe, or you just want to pursue a career in the 21st century, basic computer programming is an essential skill to learn

The most amazing achievement of the computer software industry is its continuing cancellation of the steady and staggering gains made by the computer hardware industry.

The internet is watching us now. If they want to. They can see what sites you visit. In the future, television will be watching us, and customizing itself to what it knows about us. The thrilling thing is, that will make us feel we're part of the medium. The scary thing is, we'll lose our right to privacy. An ad will appear in the air around us, talking directly to us.

Bach is how buildings got taller. It's how we got to the moon.

I'm going to design the container and interior spaces. You bring your own stuff to it and make it your own.