Technology Expertise Quotes

Technology is something we buy to sell to the customers. Ericsson, Nokia and IBM do technology for a living, so let's give it to them because they know best. It has made the business model of Bharti very, very sustainable.

I can keep learning about all the different technologies. It's my most telling characteristic. I'm interested in trying anything new.

There aren't enough people out there that are becoming experts in technology as technology moves.

I didn't set out to be at the top of technology companies. I'm just geeky and shy, and I like to code.

People say to me that I'm a role model in technology, but it makes me laugh, because I'm not a technologist, I'm a journalist - that's my background.

I'm very excited to be joining the 'Gadget Show' family. I'm always keen to try out new gadgets, so it's going to be brilliant to be able to get my hands on the latest models and test them on behalf of the viewers.

Obama doesn't know how to invent the iPhone; he can't start a successful business. He's never really worked in a business except for the briefest of times.

This has become a bugbear of mine: the difference between geek and nerd.

I am purely a technocrat and I reject all ideological labels.

If I sound like a technology geek, that's probably because I am. But I also love running good businesses.

I don't pretend to be a digital savant or even a digital apprentice.

I was around computers from birth; we had one of the first Macs, which came out shortly before I was born, and my dad ran a company that wrote computer operating systems. I don't think I have any particular technical skills; I just got a really large head start.

After more than 23 years working on a wide range of Microsoft products, I have decided to leave the company to seek new opportunities that build on these experiences.

I started out as an artist, and I continue to think of myself as an artist first, and a technologist and entrepreneur after that.

Before I was hired by Obama's team as the CTO for his 2012 re-election campaign, I had certainly never been involved with anything of that nature before. Yet, I somehow knew I could do the job. I attribute that confidence to my experience as a hacker and the subsequent willingness to take risks.

Probably, if I created a venture fund, I would create a firm with virtual services not too different from the a16z model, but without employing people. So I would get CPOs, engineering talent, marketing people who wanted to be involved with the venture fund and provide services.

Sara is about as tech-savvy as your grandma.

Technical understanding should be a core competency of any company.

To have strongly integrated managers who have a deep understanding of technology is a rare and difficult combination to build. You have to invest a lot in selecting and training these people.

Man, he could sell. As he liked to say, he lived at the intersection of technology and liberal arts. But there was a more personal side of Steve Jobs, of course, and I was fortunate enough to see a bit of it because I spent hours in conversation with him over the 14 years he ran Apple.

I believe tech should be a core skill of a tech company.

Some digital natives are extraordinarily savvy.

I'm not that Internet-savvy. I get by. But that's all. I don't have serious skills or any other stuff.

All the old great companies were run by guys who knew what an animator meant, and guys who knew how to draw. All the companies today are run by executives.

I'm not a technology person.