--- title: "2 Urs Holzle Quotes - Famous Computer scientist (The Datacenter as a Computer)" description: "Urs Hölzle is a Swiss-American software engineer and technology executive. Browse 2 Urs Holzle quotes." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b101/author-urs-holzle-109300.jpg" --- ![Portrait of Urs Holzle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b101/author-urs-holzle-109300.jpg) # Urs Holzle (2000) Computer Scientist **2** quotes in **14** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet Urs Holzle is a computer scientist, best known for *The Datacenter as a Computer*. ## Quick Facts About Urs Holzle Born January 1, 2000 Profession Computer Scientist Notable works The Datacenter as a Computer ## About Urs Holzle Urs Hölzle is a Swiss-American software engineer and technology executive. As Google's eighth employee and its first VP of Engineering, he has shaped much of Google's development processes and infrastructure, as well as its engineering culture. His most notable contributions include leading the development of fundamental cloud infrastructure such as energy-efficient data centers, distributed compute and storage systems, and software-defined networking. Until July 2023, he was the Senior Vice President of Technical Infrastructure and Google Fellow at Google. In July 2023, he transitioned to being a Google Fellow only. ## Quotes by Urs Holzle > [Start-up should focus on innovation not on building on infrastructure. Thanks to Google cloud service they can.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/urs-holzle/start-up-should-focus-on-innovation-not-on-building-on-infrastructure/) [Urs Holzle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/urs-holzle/) [Building](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/building/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f0b/urs-holzle-109300_building_start-up-should-focus-on-innovation-not_85792.png) > [Every developer will want to live in this world…and it’s our job to build it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/urs-holzle/every-developer-will-want-to-live-in-this-world-and-it-s-our-job-to/) [Urs Holzle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/urs-holzle/) [Build](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/build/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b13/urs-holzle-109300_build_every-developer-will-want-to-live-in-thi_2673794.png) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/urs-holzle/#itemlist", "name": "Urs Holzle Quotes", "numberOfItems": 2, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Start-up should focus on innovation not on building on infrastructure. 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