John Cale Quotes

All of my memories are now on hard drives. I'll change phones or I'll change my laptop, and all my photos stay.

Dropbox looks really simple to the end user and is extremely magical and just works. But under the hood, the complexity of the technology is huge. The amount of work it requires to store, scale and move this data is pretty intense.

People simply don't have room, physical room, to keep, for instance, 2-inch tape in the sort of quantities that are required to hold a full archive. It's not just a matter of having three or four boxes, it's 40, 90 boxes of 2-inch tape, and very few people have the resources that sort of stuff properly.

Soon it's all going to be digital anyway. It's all going to be saved on a little coin somewhere.

Digital data are more fragile than printed material.

Computing is kind of a mess. Your computer doesn't know where you are. It doesn't know what you're doing. It doesn't know what you know.

People are good at intuition, living our lives. What are computers good at? Memory.

Technology has come such a long way and you could pretty much do everything what's called 'in the box'. It means that it never has to leave your computer.

Most of us have embraced digital technology, and depend on it more and more in our daily lives, both at home and at work.

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

The Xbox is how the computer will be built in the next 20 years. More semiconductor capacity will go to the user experience.

I have seen a man charged with revolutionizing incredibly complex government information technology systems who did not know how to use a thumb drive.

Intuitively you want some place [such as your phone] to store phone numbers, so you have that part of your brain to do other tasks.

There's such a magnitude of record taking. It's so exhaustive. Bandwidth and hard drive space are able to accommodate limitless capacities to take a record of anything and everything.

I couldn't tell you in any detail how my computer works. I use it with a layer of automation.

The Internet is a computing platform built on top of core technology. Applied technology is what gets built on top of that: It's Web services.

Planes don't fly, trains don't run, banks don't operate without much of what IBM does.

Cloud represents the maturation of the IT industry.

I believe in the power of shared data and technology to help build a better future.

Cloud is just emerging, but it's high growth.

Oracle will continue to componentize all of its solutions so we can work in a heterogeneous environment.

The cloud is one of the most extraordinary opportunities of our lifetime. If we're not investing now, we'll rue the day we didn't.

We want to be able to service our customers more, like an Internet service. Our goal is to run one of the largest Internet services that enables people to use Windows on an everyday basis.

The belief is more and more as we use iCloud services for documents and our photos and videos and music that perhaps the most price-conscious customers are able to live in an environment where they don't need gobs of local storage because these services are lightening the load.

Cloud computing eliminates capital expenditure, so you can go global very quickly - you don't have to have extensive servers in every country.