Cheryl Yeoh Quotes

I want to explore the existing manufacturing abilities of Indian companies and create products together.

What I tell founders is not to sweat the business model too much at first. The most important task at first is to build something people want. If you don't do that, it won't matter how clever your business model is.

When I read commentary about suggestions for where C should go, I often think back and give thanks that it wasn't developed under the advice of a worldwide crowd.

When I worked at Microsoft, I got to go and visit a bunch of different companies. Probably a hundred different companies a year. You'd see all the different ways they'd work. The guys who did Ventura Publisher one day, and then United Airlines the next. You'd see the 12 guys in Texas doing Doom, and then you'd go see Aetna Life Insurance.

I love that our engineers are first and foremost 'Instagram' users.

In a web/mobile startup, coding is not an outsourced activity. It's an integral part of the company's DNA.

Since its inception, HCL's core focus area has been technology and product development, and hence, we continued to remain in the high end of technology throughout the '90s.

Everyone on the founding team ought to invest the time in a coding bootcamp.

My dream is to build a tech company that helps people discover content.

It used to be that American and European companies built their products in low-wage countries, separated by great distances from the innovators who developed the products and the markets where they were sold. But companies increasingly find that is an outmoded way of doing business.

The purpose of most computer languages is to lengthen your resume by a word and a comma.

In the information age, the barriers [to entry into programming] just aren't there. The barriers are self imposed. If you want to set off and go develop some grand new thing, you don't need millions of dollars of capitalization. You need enough pizza and Diet Coke to stick in your refrigerator, a cheap PC to work on, and the dedication to go through with it. We slept on floors. We waded across rivers.

In software speed to market, speed to learning is really key. In hardware if you screw it up you are dead. So accuracy really matters.

Not only because the product wasn't a great product, but remember it took us five or six years to ship it. Then we had to sort of fix it. That was what I might call Windows 7.

When you're designing and inventing the way I did, every minute of your life is put - every neuron in your brain into trying to think about the little code and how you can maybe have one less line of code and a little bit more straightforward from the beginning to the answer. And you don't have time to think about companies and products and how would I build this. So Steve Jobs and I were a very necessary pair.

Creeping featurism is a disease, fatal if not treated promptly. There are some cures, but, as usual, the best approach is to practice preventative medicine.

C++ is designed to allow you to express ideas, but if you don't have ideas or don't have any clue about how to express them, C++ doesn't offer much help.

The finest pieces of software are those where one individual has a complete sense of exactly how the program works. To have that, you have to really love the program and concentrate on keeping it simple, to an incredible degree.

Founders should think of their company as a product and build it and shape it with the same passion and care.

So we do software for watches, for phones, for TV sets, for cars. And some of these take a long time to catch on.

Press releases are easier to write than code, and that is still easier than making a great product.

Asia is the market and the location where production is inexpensive. The technological expertise and specialist knowledge comes from the industrialized world.

In the software business there are many enterprises for which it is not clear that science can help them; that science should try is not clear either.

Listen to your customers, but don't always build exactly what they're telling you. This is a really key distinction around building enterprise software.

People will realize that software is not a product; you use it to build a product.