Peter Levine Quotes

We're the toolmakers. Our developers are the real creative geniuses.

This is a software-powered world.

At Microsoft, the magic of software is used to take on very interesting challenges.

I felt there was a need for us to build a new programming language. I also had come to see that Microsoft functions best when it controls its own destiny.

Code writers, they are my idols.

IT put India on the map of the world and told Indians that they are somebody in the world. There is something about technology that is very empowering: 'We are designing software for the best companies in the world.'

Mexico is very well positioned in the IT sector, thanks to our closeness to North America and how things are being developed in Silicon Valley.

Microsoft has some assets like Office that have stayed strong and there's so much room for innovation in those.

Software is the magic thing whose importance only goes up over time.

For instance, in 1999, Bill Gates not only published a new book on work at the speed of thought but also detailed how Microsoft's 'Falconview' software would enable the destruction of bridges in Kosovo.

I'm not one for conventional wisdom. I founded my label in 1998, but after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, my Japanese backers pulled out, and I couldn't afford to produce the line myself. I needed fresh ideas from someone who understood technology, since that was the direction the business was going.

I've been in a room in Silicon Valley where on the wall they have 160 industries they think blockchain can disrupt. We picked six of them to focus on.

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

Look at the computer industry. I've watched a lot of companies come and go, some that were right at the pinnacle of their success.

We're creating this new breed of techies who are going to be the ones starting the tech companies of the future.

Technology can be part of a solution, but it takes far more than software to usher in reform.

I love technology. I have my iPad, iPad mini, iPhone and Mac laptop. Because I love technology, I think if I were not at the NBA, I would try to be part of a tech startup company.

Deloitte Catalyst is enabling Deloitte and our clients to more easily tap the power of innovation.

We can build a better product than Linux.

The programmers of tomorrow are the wizards of the future.

I firmly believe that digitalization has only just begun in China. In addition to the taxi, transport, shopping and hotel businesses, many other industries will follow: education, health care, administration, even the legal branch - everything, really. There is still a lot of opportunity in China for the inventive and ambitious ones.

The benefit to building a startup is that customers don't have the same kind of friction when they adopt new technology.

I had a running compiler and nobody would touch it. They told me computers could only do arithmetic.

Computer science is the operating system for all innovation.

It is a high bar to say that it's more fun than working on software because the work at Microsoft that both Melinda [Gates] and I did was thrilling. We were making breakthroughs and empowering people.