Drew Houston Quotes

Paul Allen with Microsoft revolutionized the software industry.

Some of the most innocuous inventions have proven earth-shattering, with reverberations felt around the planet. The Internet is the poster child for disruptive technology, but even such inventions as Amazon's Kindle and Apple's iPod have rocked their respective industries by changing how we entertain ourselves.

Just as we could have rode into the sunset, along came the Internet, and it tripled the significance of the PC.

I actually think the one who is underestimated in terms of impact he's had on society is Bill Gates. The reason is that with the innovation of software, he really allowed the computer revolution to take hold.

The Internet creates as well as destroys. Social networks, search advertising, and cloud computing are multibillion dollar industries that didn't exist 10 years ago. They are products of the same force that has rendered the Postal Service's core business obsolete.

Companies in every industry need to assume that a software revolution is coming.

History is replete with examples of tech firms that were marginalized by new companies and technologies.

Look at electricity in human history - it took a few decades for electricity to really revolutionize the American economy. And the Internet will be the same. At some point in the future, we will arrive at a new era of low-hanging fruit.

Innovation and disruption are the hallmarks of the technology world, and hardly a moment passes when we are not thinking, doing, or talking about these topics.

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.'

Societies or companies that expect a glorious past to shield them from the forces of change driven by advancing technology will fail and fall. That applies as much to my own, the media industry, as to every other business on the planet.

Amazon and Snap both have stories that are compelling for many investors: Amazon has transformed retailing and is destined to dominate it. Snap is reinventing communication, at least for millennials and those even younger.

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

Technology's become the great prism for what's going on in the world.

In fact, technology in, and of, itself does not cause particular kinds of change. It is, essentially, an enabling or facilitating agent. It makes possible new structures, new organizational and geographical arrangements of economic activities, new products and new processes, while not making particular, outcomes inevitable.

Technology by default became the thing that was a new thing that had swept in and was altering it everything.

Tip: Take the stodgiest, oldest, slowest moving industry you can find. And build amazing software for it.

Technology is going to play an increasingly, increasingly, increasingly important role in every industry. And it's good.

Obviously, computers have made differences. They have fostered the development of spaceships- as well as a great increase in junk mail.

Studios and networks who ignore either shift - whether the increasing sophistication of storytelling, or the constantly shifting sands of technological advancement - will be left behind.

Any medium powerful enough to extend man's reach is powerful enough to topple his world.

The new media and technologies by which we amplify and extend ourselves constitute huge collective surgery carried out on the social body with complete disregard for antiseptics.

Software was changing so fast, so unbelievable, that that got very quick adoption.

Make a difference no matter what role you play

Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.