Edward Tufte Quotes

Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes.

I really think it is amazing that people actually buy software.

We can't defend French culture without a [computer] software industry.

Most of the largest software companies in the world today are based on Oracle, and they were once startups.

There are two great fictional TV series about technology and the computer industry that each have now had three seasons. The one everyone knows about is 'Silicon Valley.' The lesser-known one is 'Halt and Catch Fire.'

Softbank has always been a service firm, and with the Internet, services became the center of the technology industry.

When I was in my 40s, Microsoft was my primary activity.

I'd like to make an album with Slack one day. I'd like to use it as a collaborative tool. I know about it because I have friends that work in tech, and I guess you can use it in any job.

I would never be able to work on a photo-sharing app or 'Internet startup XYZ.'

The only people who don’t love apps are pundits who don’t understand that apps aren’t really in opposition to the open Internet. They’re just superior clients to open Internet services.

A great lathe operator commands several times the wage of an average lathe operator, but a great writer of software code is worth 10,000 times the price of an average software writer.

Only in high school when I began programming computers, did I become interested in tech and start-ups, which led me to attend Stanford and major in Computer Science.

Venture capitalists don't pay attention to you unless you have an app or a widget.

I've always had a passion for the tech industry, and I like to help build interesting products.

The best software companies in the world are the Indian companies like the Tatas, Infosys, and others.

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.

There's no more silicon in Silicon Valley. It's all iPhone apps.

My dad got me an iMac, and I spent my whole childhood with my eyes glued to it. I was technically savvy and knew how to make it work for me.

My dad worked in the IT industry, although I haven't got a clue what he did. He always tells me but it just goes over my head.

I hate anyone that is involved in the drug business.

Machines and people are both necessary for Facebook, Twitter, Wikipedia, Google, and neither is sufficient on its own.

By the time buzzwords appear in the popular press, there's probably a bunch of us in the development trenches pulling out our hair and weeping.

Tech stuff, I will always do. They've been good to me.

Most of what we do is software, Internet, and mobile. A fair amount of that is transactional.

I'm definitely going back to school to be a computer engineer.