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I think that all services will have downtime. No matter how much you prepare, have redundant systems, or audit, there will periodically be a black swan event that is completely unlike whatever you've experienced before. It even happens to Google!

How could this Y2K be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?

W2K will be a bigger disaster than Y2K.

In general, the Internet was not designed to accommodate deliberate failures to communicate.

Our lives sometimes depend on computers performing as predicted.

One of the most feared expressions in modern times is 'The computer is down.'

Cloud services cut both ways in terms of security: you get off-site backup and disaster recovery, but you entrust your secrets to somebody else's hands. Doing the latter increases your exposure to government surveillance and the potential for deliberate or inadvertent breaches of your confidential files.

Whether it's watching a $4,000 laptop fall off the conveyor belt at airport security, contending with a software conflict that corrupted your file management system, or begging your family to stop opening those virus-carrying 'greeting cards' attached to emails, all computer owners are highly leveraged and highly vulnerable technology investors.

If you don't fix latent failures in your system, you're asking for trouble.

We call the fates of the Titanic and the Concordia - as well as those of the space shuttles Challenger and Columbia - 'accidents.' Foreseeing such undesirable events is what engineers are expected to do. However, design trade-offs leave technological systems open to failings once predicted, but later forgotten.

Complex systems work until the day that they don’t work.

In software, the chain isn't as strong as its weakest link; it's as weak as all the weak links multiplied together.

I don't know how to back up.

This whole cloud phenomenon is gaining steam pretty rapidly, and it's really become a strategic imperative for people.

When 3 million more people vote for a presidential candidate, but that candidate still loses, the system sucks. Period. It's broken. I think it's broken if the candidate loses by one vote and still wins. Losing by 3 million votes, but still winning the election, is preposterous.

'The cloud' is effectively an augmentation of our brains' memories.

There's nothing slowing down about the shift to the cloud. I don't see anything on the horizon that is changing that.

The beautiful part of the cloud is, you know, it's unlimited capacity, in theory.

We will continue to invest in high-growth areas... with a particular focus on digital, cloud, and security services.

I am convinced that as we move more towards cloud services, there is going to be a greater need for connectivity.

Science plays a huge role in our lives. We're surrounded by technology, we depend on it.

With Google, we formed a new alliance to create industry-specific cloud and mobile solutions to help clients advance their digital transformation agendas and improve business performance.

The cloud presents a variety of new opportunities for Fortinet, ranging from how we leverage our own cloud-based technologies to make networks more secure, to actually developing the solutions that help secure the cloud infrastructure.

The federal government has invested billions in Metro, yet the system is not safe and is not reliable.

A long time ago, we had to build interfaces to connect with other companies, and I thought that was a great idea. The company had to pay a lot of money to build it and basically launched it, but our whole operating system almost broke. So, we couldn't continue it. In the end, I had to go on the train to Paris to explain that I had spent millions.