Software Solutions Quotes

Apple is the only company that can take hardware, software, and services and integrate those into an experience that's an 'aha' for the customer. You can take that and apply to markets that we're not in today.

Although the most advanced software innovation may take place in big cities with research universities, there is a lot of work concerning the application of software to business processes and the administration and maintenance of software systems that can be done remotely.

Over the eons I've been a fan of, and sucker for, each latest automated system to 'simplify' and 'bring order to' my life. Very early on this led me to the beautiful-and-doomed Lotus Agenda for my DOS computers, and Actioneer for the early Palm.

The 1980s will seem like a walk in the park when compared to new global challenges, where annual productivity increases of 6% may not be enough. A combination of software, brains, and running harder will be needed to bring that percentage up to 8% or 9%.

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

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

Product pricing is aligned to the way customers want to acquire their solutions and are delivered via different delivery models including appliances, the cloud, or as on-premise software solutions.

[We in Microsoft] are not the only software company but we are a great software company doing some unique work.

Machine learning allows us to build software solutions that exceed human understanding and shows us how AI can innervate every industry.

Netweaver was going to be the number one middleware player in the world. We heard about Netweaver day and night. Oracle became number one. No one talks about Netweaver.

The unique value that Microsoft can add is around productivity and platforms. Productivity is broadly something we can uniquely do.

The way to be successful in the software world is to come up with breakthrough software, and so whether it's Microsoft Office or Windows, its pushing that forward. New ideas, surprising the marketplace, so good engineering and good business are one in the same.

Technology has the benefit of being easily scalable. A few weeks or months of coding can result in solutions that reap huge benefits. The global success of Facebook, Twitter, and Google are all triumphs of technology.

I think reconceptualizing Microsoft as a devices and services company is absolutely what our vision is all about. Office 365 and Azure on the services side are representative of it.

The industries that fall first are the industries that either produce electromechanical items that are now inferior to their software substitutes, or the industries that produce a mechanically created service that's now inferior.

I want to see us remain convinced that software matters in the future.

The more money Automattic makes, the more we invest into Free and Open Source software that belongs to everybody and services to make that software sing.

Epic has prided itself on providing software directly to customers ever since I started mailing floppy disks in 1991.

Mindtree began as an internet systems integrator when the dot-com boom was going on.

I think that sometimes people talk about disruption, and I've seen tons of startups come in as disruptors and then disappear. And I think what we need to do as an industry is think about a world that is dominated by mobile and software and not extrapolate from what was. And I think a lot of big companies tend to want to do that.

If software's the only thing in your bag of tools, I'm not going to give you great odds.

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

If every sector of business and society will be driven by software - how does that get enabled? By highly-paid computer scientists funded by risk capital in Silicon Valley? Or by lots of engineers who can build it themselves?

I've spent a career working in tech as a software engineer. And I believe regulated markets are the best way to build and deliver innovative products.

I felt there was a need for us to build a new programming language. I also had come to see that Microsoft functions best when it controls its own destiny.