John T. Chambers Quotes

I'm a futurist. Technology is our way out of almost every problem we have. Technology can create a new sense of community.

With the way everything's going now and the way that technology is going, you can do a lot of things with a lot of different new materials.

Some people think technology has the answers.

It was a case of the technology catching up with the problem.

New technologies, however remarkable they might seem, are fundamentally just tools made by people for people.

I've had the opportunity to experience firsthand how tech companies can help people in their daily lives.

My view is we should be doing everything we can to come up with ways of exploiting the current technology effectively.

At its best, technology can empower people in extraordinary ways.

Technological change is both familiar and easy to observe.

The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn't think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential.

The world that our children living in is going to be completely different because of big data.

My little self-analysis is that consumer technology is the closest thing we have to magic. You push a button and something happens at your command. The things that get me fired up the most have always been the things that seem the most magical.

The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing.

I don't think love for technology itself breeds change.

It's not enough to have a hacker culture anymore. You have to have a design culture, too.

If that's there, I believe that technology will probably step up to their part of it.

If you want to bring down the prices of healthcare and education, the answer will be more innovation, more technology, which will then have the effect of freaking everybody out and saying, 'Oh, my God, you're going to kill all the jobs.'

I believe that people are too complacent about technology.

The rise of Google, the rise of Facebook, the rise of Apple, I think are proof that there is a place for computer science as something that solves problems that people face every day.

We want to show how technology can be applied to fix our problems. We need to celebrate not just success but to celebrate people who make a difference. It starts with people who do things for love, with no expectation of return. Some of that turns into enormous financial success, and then some of it goes back into doing it for love.

I love to use technology to help people have better lives and to reduce our impact on the planet.

We who work in technology have nurtured an especially rare gift: the opportunity to effect change at an unprecedented scale and rate. Technology, community, and capitalism combine to make Silicon Valley the potential epicenter of vast positive change.

We humans have a love-hate relationship with our technology. We love each new advance and we hate how fast our world is changing... The robots really embody that love-hate relationship we have with technology.

When e-commerce companies build scale, cost comes down. Companies that can handle scale and reduce costs over time will win. Margins will come from reducing costs over time and not by increasing prices. Technology is the answer at large scale.

Science and technology is going to change every day for the rest of your lives.