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

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" 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. "

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

" Business reporting is not dealing with objects, it is dealing with relationships between objects. "

" 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'm not just a scientist. "

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

" 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. "

" You cannot make money with a hockey team. You cannot make money with a hotel, either, and you cannot make money with a golf club. I have all three of them. When you have a certain amount of money, you do silly things - because it's pretty to have a golf course and it's interesting to have a hockey team. "

" At Stanford, we teach 'design thinking' - that is, we put together small, interdisciplinary groups to figure out what the true needs are and then to apply the art of engineering to serve them. "

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

" I would have liked to grow up in Liverpool and become a rocker. I would have put my boots on, jeans and a leather jacket, and long hair and played the guitar. "

" I create, for whatever reason, a busy schedule, but I watch hockey, all the games, either on the PC or TV. The world is now HD, and this is very good. "

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

" Americans are not afraid of the future. "

" Thirty percent of Americans have German blood in their family. I don't see any major difference in the engineering abilities of Americans and Germans. "

" New applications will have to deal with big data. We have to analyze it on the fly, so we have to have a system that is transactional and analytical at the same time. We cannot have a multi-stage system. This is too slow for modern applications. "

" 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. "

" In the '80s, when Gretzky came to the World Championships in the second or third game, you'd see this guy skating circles around the other ones. Unbelievable. "

" We have to be able to adapt to new situation. It's another form of the definition of intelligent behavior. "

" There is this permanent hope in America that there is some new technology around the corner that will change the world. "

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" Kids only learn that the stove is hot when they put their finger on and they burn it. This, unfortunately, is the limitation of our precious brain. "

" I can't control my frustration. "