Technology Choice Quotes

It's not about HTML 5 vs Flash. They're mutually beneficial. The more important question is the freedom of choice on the web.

Never ask what sort of computer a guy drives. If he's a Mac user, he'll tell you. If not, why embarrass him?

I would buy a Mac today if I was not working at Microsoft.

We chose it because we deal with huge amounts of data. Besides, it sounds really cool.

I have no plans to get an iPad. I know it will do more things than my Kindle, but I don’t want more things. If I want other stuff - movies, TV shows, weather forecasts, the forthcoming Josh Ritter album - I have my Mac.

What people don't consider is that tech is a really personal purchase. You spend so much time using it.

From a product development perspective, choosing whether a technology is disruptive at a potential moment is key.

I am sure there will come a time when we are going to use AMD. The products have been getting better. The acceptance is getting better. But we have not been suffering as a company for either growth or profitability because we haven't had AMD.

Just let me use the technology I want at a fair price.

When I'm introspective about the last few years I think the biggest mistake that we made, as a company, is betting too much on HTML5 as opposed to native... because it just wasn't there. And it's not that HTML5 is bad. I'm actually, on long-term, really excited about it. One of the things that's interesting is we actually have more people on a daily basis using mobile Web Facebook than we have using our iOS or Android apps combined. So mobile Web is a big thing for us.

It didn't make a lot of sense for us to be doing Lotus Notes implementations.

We may have to force people to get together in terms of picking a particular type of technology and starting to build to that technology, as opposed to everybody exercising their right to buy their own system, you know, at will.

It's like PlayStation-Xbox. I like both. So nothing against Mac, but I do use Windows.

I know everyone has a different taste as far as personal technology - like, smartphones are maybe the most personal decision you can make - so I don't know if I can recommend one thing for everyone. But, I do like the idea of everyone moving, eventually, to an electric car.

Its true that contemporary technology permits decentralization, it also permits centralization. It depends on how you use the technology.