Jerry Yang Quotes

Future is mobile computing - smartphones and tablets are just elements of it. The industry is on the verge of a whole new paradigm.

I think with the proliferation of mobile devices and then, eventually, the Internet of Things, we literally have supercomputers in our pockets and supercomputers that will hang on telephone poles and in light bulbs.

Everything is going to be connected to cloud and data... All of this will be mediated by software.

I think Google is a great company, and they're doing really cool things. But they're not doing things that are going to put us, I think, into the next generation of technology.

Cloud computing is the third wave of the digital revolution.

AI cloud is just very, very nascent.

The world that our children living in is going to be completely different because of big data.

Technology is driving the innovation. Technology is driving the creativity. Technology and the use of that is going to determine our workers' ability to compete in the 21st century global marketplace.

The Web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past.

What amplifies the transformational power ahead is the confluence of two major technological currents today: the universal access to mobile computing and the pervasive use of social networks.

You have to wait for people to program you. The only difference is the amount of people that you're going to reach but that's going to even out in the next two or three years anyway. Computers are being bought faster than televisions right now.

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

As humanity goes online, it's becoming an extremely advanced, large-scale processing unit.

In my humble opinion, the PC as we have known it is in a continuous decline and being relegated to a utility device for businesses.

Technology is an enabler; you have to be at the cutting edge of technology - there is no choice.

IBM has taken a leadership role in this area and is prepared to be a technology partner with companies around the world to take advantage of these new developments.

More and more major businesses and industries are being run on software and delivered as online services - from movies to agriculture to national defense.

IT for a long time has been about how do you make old processes more efficient. But with all of the progress in digital technology, there is a kind of digital transformation that is occurring. And you see it with the explosion in the number of devices; you see it in the explosion in the number of applications.

First of all, we have infrastructure as a service, which Amazon has; we have platform as a service, which Microsoft has; we have software as a service; we have applications. Nobody has everything except us. We also have data as a service.

There will be 50 billion devices, modules, sensors connected to the Internet by 2025, and that will give opportunities.

Technology is the future, I have seen the third industrial revolution, and we are in the midst of the fourth industrial revolution.

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

In the wake of digitalization megatrends such as mobile Internet, the Internet of things, and big data, digital innovations are creating development opportunities faster than ever.

Increasingly, the work we do is enabled more and more by new IT, including automation, robotics, and intelligent platforms.

The battle between Google and Apple has shifted from devices, operating systems, and apps to a new, amorphous idea called 'contextual computing.' We have become data-spewing factories, and the only way to make sense of it all is through context.