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“If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.”

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Author:Bill Gates

“The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.”

Source: The road ahead

“I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user.”

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Author:Bill Gates

“Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.”

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Author:Bill Gates

“The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.”

“I also like to use a sensational headline. Many people read blogs in aggregators, which generally show only the headline. So you have to give people a reason to click through. Blogs need to be real and personal. Reading it should be like hanging out with you. I play music for my readers. I show them videos I like. I tell them what I did over the weekend. And I tell them what is happening in the technology, Internet, and VC markets.”

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Author:Fred Wilson

“One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.”

“Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.”

Source: Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs

“To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines.”

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Author:Steve Jobs

“The system is that there is no system. That doesn't mean we don't have process. Apple is a very disciplined company, and we have great processes. But that's not what it's about. Process makes you more efficient.”

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Author:Steve Jobs

“Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don't care as much about attractive sites and pretty design.”

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Author:Tim Berners-Lee

“The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.”

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Author:Warren G. Bennis

“Feedback is the breakfast of champions.”

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Author:Ken Blanchard

“Apparently, sir you Chinese are far ahead of us in every respect, except that you don’t have entrepreneurs. And our nation, though it has no drinking water, electricity, sewage system, public transportation, sense of hygiene, discipline, courtesy, or punctuality, ‘’does’’ have entrepreneurs. Thousands and thousands of them. Especially in the field of technology. And these entrepreneurs—"we" entrepreneurs—have set up all these outsourcing companies that virtually run America now.”

Source: The White Tiger

“...[D]ivision of labor, in my mind, is one of the dangers of work-based technology. Modern IT infrastructure allows us to break projects into very small, discrete parts and assign each person to do only one of the many parts. In so doing, companies run the risk of taking away employees' sense of the big picture, purpose, and sense of completion.”

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Author:Dan Ariely

“We're responsible for the creation of the PC industry. The whole idea of compatible machines and lots of software - that's something we brought to computing. And so it's a responsibility for us to make sure that things like security don't get in the way of that dream.”

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Author:Bill Gates

“I believe that this notion of self-publishing, which is what Blogger and blogging are really about, is the next big wave of human communication. The last big wave was Web activity. Before that one it was e-mail. Instant messaging was an extension of e-mail, real-time e-mail.”

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Author:Eric Schmidt

“I think one of the big errors people are making right now is thinking that old-style businesses will be obsolete, when actually they will be an important part of this new civilization. Some retail groups are introducing e-commerce and think that the bricks are no longer useful. But they will continue to be important.”

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Author:Carlos Slim

“Some say Google is God. Others say Google is Satan. But if they think Google is too powerful, remember that with search engines unlike other companies, all it takes is a single click to go to another search engine.”

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Author:Sergey Brin

“There are managers so preoccupied with their e-mail messages that they never look up from their screens to see what's happening in the nondigital world”

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Author:Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

“We have technology, finally, that for the first time in human history allows people to really maintain rich connections with much larger numbers of people.”

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Author:Pierre Omidyar

“This use of advertising - to add a subjective value to the product - becomes increasingly important as the trends in our technology lead to competing products becoming more and more the same.”

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Author:James Webb Young

“The future of retail is the integration of Internet and digital services with the retail network.”

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Author:Charles Dunstone

“Consumers today are less responsive to traditional media. They are embracing new technologies that empower them with more control over how and when they are marketed to.”

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Author:Jim Stengel