Dan Gilbert Quotes

The regulators can’t do it. These institutions are just too large and complex.

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

We had to address information technology in the ways we had not before and give the agents the tools that they need to do their job more efficiently and more expeditiously.

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.

Customers require the effective integration of technologies to simplify their workflow and boost efficiency.

We created the hierarchical, pyramidal, managerial system because we needed it to keep track of people and things people did; with the computer to keep track, we can restructure our institutions horizontally.

Complexity that works is built up out of modules that work perfectly, layered one over the other.

To devise an information processing system capable of getting along on its own - it must handle its own problems of programming, bookkeeping, communication and coordination with its users. It must appear to its users as a single, integrated personality.

Everything is getting bigger. The way to go now is to program in a little more sophistication.

I'm grasping with how you do something on a large scale with multiple operations and not have quality decrease.

Since, however, it is immaterial whether the work is done by assistants or a machine, I decided to build a machine equivalent to an array of about 200 separating funnels.

If you accept that security is a process, and if you can eliminate the human interaction or intervention in that process by automating more, that is a good thing.

The shift in demand is toward partners that can improve productivity, and in part, that can be done by software.

It's easy to talk about digitalising things; it's quite difficult to do in a B2B environment. It's hard to digitalise that complexity.

Like two sides of the same coin, you can't separate IoT from underlying business processes.

If you want to write the software to control the national medical system of a large country, Java is perfect.

Automation is driving the decline of banal and repetitive tasks.

As with any other crucial aspect of a growing business, you need the right technology and tools.

The regulations keep on coming. And we are trying to make decisions that we will be happy with for decades.

In today's world of technology we should no longer be using outdated paper processes to accomplish tasks such as requisitions, reports, approvals, and purchase orders

Software is inherently complicated. If you say to somebody I want an airline reservation system, to really say what you want in terms of overbooking and fares, and different airlines communicating with each or schedule changes, it's immensely complex. And so you can't write a program that's any simpler than that full specification.

All things are delicately interconnected.

EPA gets to set a standard for new. For the existing, EPA sets guidelines for what we think is appropriate, but then states develop plans that work for them, taking into consideration their specific energy mix.

The database hugging in public institutions is hampering innovation.

An insect is more complex than a star..and is a far greater challenge to understand.