Business Quote by Paul Allen

Microprocessors were instantly attractive to us because you could build something for a fraction of the cost of conventional electronics. That's essentially what we…

— Paul Allen

Even though Traf-O-Data wasn't a roaring success, it was seminal in preparing us to make Microsoft's first product a couple of years later.

— Paul Allen

Objectively speaking, Traf-O-Data was a failure as a company. Right as our business started to pick up, states began to provide their own traffic-counting…

— Paul Allen

...heavy investments in information technology have delivered disappointing results - largely because companies tend to use technology to mechanize old ways of doing business...Instead…

— Michael Martin Hammer

The mistake managers often make is defining their industry too narrowly. Digital's market share in the minicomputer market stayed very robust even as it…

— Clayton Christensen

At the end of the day everybody lost. We almost crippled our industry. It was very disappointing what happened.

— Wayne Gretzky

“Crunching data is not an automatic ticket for success, any more than putting up a website turned every company in the dotcom era into…

— McKinsey Chief Marketing & Sales Officer Forum

“So our reliance on the computers caused the failure of the mission?" asked the expendable. "The mission didn't fail," said Ram. "It succeeded nineteen…

— Orson Scott Card

If you'd asked me in 1980 what the big impact of microprocessors would be, I probably would have missed the PC. If you asked…

— Gordon Moore

Computing technology started out as number-crunching.

— Ramez Naam

Every disruptive innovation is powered by a simplifying technology, and then the technology has to get embedded in a different kind of a business…

— Clayton Christensen

There are a lot of new things going on in the microprocessor world, including increased focus on power and efficiency.

— Michael Dell