Here are some of the most enlightening and inspired quotes from some of the best tech leaders, curated by the Techovy review team.
1. “Learning the basics of being a digital citizen is a critical skill for all children in the 21st century.”
– Hadi Partovi, CEO at Code.org
2. “We have the opportunity to make people’s lives better today. And apps and operating systems will have to be smarter by steering the experience, not being driven.”
– Cynthia Maxwell, Engineering Director and Startup Advisor
3. “Computers are reliably unreliable. Humans are consistently inconsistent. The more machines act like humans, the more we expect them to behave (and feel) like us.”
– Tim Campos, Founder of Pulsra and former Chief Information Officer of Facebook
4. “People hire who they know. It’s human nature. Which is why diversity at the recruitment table is key—because diversity begets diversity.”
– Michelle Obama, Former First Lady of the United States
5. “It’s not just about learning. It’s about what learning creates.”
–Aaron Skonnard, President and CEO of Pluralsight
6. “Software is eating the world. We are all just little vegetables floating around in software soup.”
– Joel Spolsky, Chief Executive Officer of Stack Overflow
7. “The only real sustainable advantage [in business today] is speed.”
– Heather Abbott, Senior Vice President of Corporate Solutions Technology at Nasdaq
8. “If your presence does not make a difference, your absence will not make a difference.”
– A N Rao, SVP, Global Head: Cognizant Academy
9. “Companies have more capital than they have people able to execute ideas. We are underutilizing talent and human capital around the world. And race and gender have nothing to do with potential and ability.”
– Jeremy Johnson, CEO and Co-Founder of Andela
10. “Trying to delete your data from the internet is like trying to take piss out of a pool.” *
– Troy Hunt, Microsoft Regional Director, Cybersecurity Expert and creator of “Have I been pwned”
*As quoted during a breakout session
11. “You can’t say to the athletes: ‘Oh, you need to start over. Our timer wasn’t ready.’ [on Atos technology that powers the Olympics]”
– Eltina Ouwehand, CTO at Atos
12. “We have a [technology] skills gap because we have an opportunity gap. We have to create opportunity for the people, the communities and the geographies that have been locked out of education.”
– Arne Duncan, Managing Partner at Emerson Collective, former U.S. Secretary of Education
13. “The daily routine of today is change. Disruption is the new normal.”
– Steve Young, co-founder and Managing Director of HGGC and former NFL MVP
14. “That confluence of cool tech and enormous opportunity to use that tech to change the world is leading to the emergence of cloud computing.”
– Scott Guthrie, Executive Vice President, Microsoft Cloud and Enterprise group
15. “Healthcare needs this[technology]. We need to accelerate innovation at a faster pace to save more lives.”
– Eric Geis, Vice President of Intellectual Property at Cerner
16. “Every organization in the world now has to compete based on their customers’ experience. We’re on the brink of the third digital transformation.”
– Brad Rencher, Executive Vice President and General Manager, Adobe
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