Peter Levine Quotes

When you live in a networked environment, it's possible to separate data from applications.

Technology is like water; it wants to find its level. So if you hook up your computer to a billion other computers, it just makes sense that a tremendous share of the resources you want to use - not only text or media but processing power too - will be located remotely.

When I started at Microsoft, I was lucky enough to be part of the rise of the client-server paradigm.

The technology backbone is no longer an afterthought.

Remember, the Cloud is just someone else's server.

Just as we have what used to be supercomputers in our pockets, our homes now require the telecommunications infrastructure of a small city.

We run the programs, and we support them through all of our folks, but usually the hardware is somewhere else.

There's going to be a symbiotic relationship between the edge and the cloud.

It's important to have IT knowledge; it's important to increase every government agency's IT capability.

As network administrator I can take down the network with one keystroke. It's just like being a doctor but without getting gooky stuff on my paws.

As much as we can, we want to prevent people from having to think about how to keep and share their stuff.

We've announced an Oracle Virtual Compute Appliance, a bunch of low-cost commodity servers running Linux, integrated in our case, with InfiniBand - connected with InfiniBand vs. the traditional Ethernet.

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

The Domain Name Server (DNS) is the Achilles heel of the Web. The important thing is that it's managed responsibly.

AIR was born from thinking about how rich Internet applications would play out over time and what new pieces of technology would be in demand for these to go to their next generation.

It doesn't matter if it's a wireless or wired network. I think network management can be introduced that is equally sensible.

If we as a society do not understand 'the cloud,' in all its aspects - what data it holds, how it works, what the bargains are we make as we engage with it, we'll all be the poorer for it, I believe.

Choosing a single most important development is incredibly hard to do because a lot of different things had to happen before the Internet could be deployed in the fashion it is today.

One of the things I like about the computer that I use is that I can write a program on it or I can download a program on to it and run it. That's kind of important to me, and that's also kind of important to the whole future of the internet... obviously a closed platform is a serious brake on innovation.

You and I are streaming data engines.

Traditional PCs face competition from specialty products like Palm Pilots and from the servers that provide the nodes in computer networks. Microsoft's Windows CE hasn't done too well in the specialty-device market, and its Windows NT faces strong competition for server customers.

I have to admit it: I'm not a huge fan of the cloud computing concept.

I know about the tech industry in that I follow what apps are hot and software development. I know my way around different browsers. I know how to restart a computer.

I started in time-sharing and networking with packet switching, which was the precursor to what became the Internet. Time-shared use on packet-switch networks, when you think about it, is the cloud.

Infrastructure web services had to happen.