Hasso Plattner Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“This is where the world is going: direct access from anywhere to any type of data, whether it's a small piece of data or a small answer but a long algorithm to create that answer. The user doesn't care about this.”

“Africa touches me. At night, there's this thought in your brain that a million years ago we started here.”

“Americans are not afraid of the future.”

“I believe that whoever is successful should help ensure that the next generation can be successful, too.”

“I'm a Berliner - fast, loud, obnoxious, industrious, brutally open.”

“Managers are important: they are leading the company and guiding and have to provide vision and manage the daily business.”

“The Y2K problem is not caused by technical limitations. We simply forgot to think of the problem.”

“Fans don't like owners. They know they are somewhere - actually, in Germany, some owners are anonymous. Fans don't sympathize with owners, so ownership stays in the back.”

“I am grateful for the great education at a public university that Germany gave me, and that - added to a little luck - allowed me to achieve. Education is the key to a career, and its basis has to be provided by government.”

“I made my money with software - encoded knowledge without which few products and services can exist today - and so it seemed imperative that this would be the field where I would give something back.”