“A lot of jobs today are being automated; what happens when you extend that concept to very important areas of society like law enforcement? What happens if you start controlling the behavior of criminals or people in general with software-running machines? Those questions, they look like they're sci-fi but they're not.” PeopleIfsLooksImportantHappensRunningTodayJobsLawBehaviorConceptsAreasMachinesCriminalsSoftwareSci FiLaw EnforcementEnforcement Author:Jose Padilha
“Online education is pretty special for two reasons. One is that you can get the very best lecture in the world and wherever you are, whenever you want, you can connect to that lecture. The other is this interactivity, where if you know a topic, you can kind of skip over it. Or if you're confused about it, [the area] where you're confused can be analyzed by software.” IfsKnowsWorldWantKindTwoReasonSpecialAreasConfusedOnlineOver ItSoftwareTopicsLecturesSkipWherever You Are Author:Bill Gates
“Microsoft has one more shot at a role in smart phone software through its deployment on Nokia phones. Nokia is still the global market share leader in cell phones. Maybe it will work out, but this is hard to envision great success in the area coming on the heels of so much disappointment in missed opportunity in this important and visible category.” StillsImportantHardOpportunityLeaderRolesShareSmartShotsAreasPhonesDisappointmentWork OutCellsVisibleCategoriesSoftwareHeelsMicrosoftCell PhoneGreat SuccessDeploymentMissed OpportunityNokia Author:David Einhorn
“Certainly there's a phenomenon around open source. You know free software will be a vibrant area. There will be a lot of neat things that get done there.” KnowsDoneSourceAreasPhenomenonSoftwareNeatOpen Source Author:Bill Gates
“Software will get to be somewhat more mature, ah, but it will never be as predictable as most areas of engineering.” AreasMatureSoftwareEngineeringPredictable Author:Bill Gates
“There were open source projects and free software before Linux was there. Linux in many ways is one of the more visible and one of the bigger technical projects in this area, and it changed how people looked at it because Linux took both the practical and ideological approach.” PeopleWayChangedSourceProjectsApproachAreasBiggerPracticalsVisibleSoftwareIdeologicalLinuxOpen Source Author:Linus Torvalds