Battle Quote by Nathan Myhrvold

The computer industry is creatively bankrupt.

— Jonathan Ive

More and more major industries are being run on software and delivered as online services—from movies to agriculture to national defense. Many of the…

— Marc Andreessen

My own theory is that we are in the middle of a dramatic and broad technological and economic shift in which software companies are…

— Marc Andreessen

Over the next 10 years, I expect many more industries to be disrupted by software, with new world-beating Silicon Valley companies doing the disruption…

— Marc Andreessen

There's nothing more frustrating than seeing cynics sit there and say, 'Well, nobody can make any more money because Microsoft and Intel own everything.'…

— Michael J. Saylor

It is sort of a bit of a caricature of capitalism, that it's always this zero-sum game where you have winners and losers. Silicon…

— Peter Thiel

“computers on everybody’s desk. The PC, which previously could have been dismissed as a technophile’s tinker-toy, was now becoming the essential business productivity tool.…

— John Wiley and Sons

Our competition is different: They're confused. They chased after netbooks. Now they're trying to make PCs into tablets and tablets into PCs. Who knows…

— Tim Cook

Corporations have been killing the risk-taking and exploration that makes software great. They have tried to rip the soul out of development.

— Brian Behlendorf

“Investors are still thinking through the consequences of reinventing the software industry as one with an explicit focus on service rather than closed intellectual…

— Eric S. Raymond

One would expect that a surge of new automation opportunities in highly paid work would catalyze a surge of corporate investment in computer hardware…

— David Autor

The biggest problem is that people have stopped being critical about the role of the computer in their lives. These machines went from being…

— Ellen Ullman