We have to be able to adapt to new situation. It's another form of the definition of intelligent behavior.
Business reporting is not dealing with objects, it is dealing with relationships between objects.
I believe that whoever is successful should help ensure that the next generation can be successful, too.
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.
Africa touches me. At night, there's this thought in your brain that a million years ago we started here.
Successful companies obviously have people with ideas and energy.
I can't control my frustration.
Please, please, please, my dear competition. We can beat each other and fight each other as much as we want and argue, but do not predict how a system really works when you really don't know and don't want to know. Either be better informed, or don't do it.
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.
The Y2K problem is not caused by technical limitations. We simply forgot to think of the problem.
There is this permanent hope in America that there is some new technology around the corner that will change the world.
The software industry has to become better in componentization. That's a clear focus for most of the software companies. How components look, how they are maintained, the ability to maintain them separately.
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.
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.
I'm a Berliner - fast, loud, obnoxious, industrious, brutally open.
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'm not just a scientist.
Americans are not afraid of the future.
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.
