Paul Saffo Quotes (17 Quotes)

That's going to change, ... We're going to put eyes, ears and sensory organs on our computers and our networks in absolutely unprecedented ways. We're going to ask them to observe and manipulate the physical world on our behalf.

This is a unique conference, ... It is a forum for the AMD community to consider not just immediate technology trends and their business impacts, but also to explore the larger, longer-term surprises that technological innovation presents for society at large.

We're seeing the rise of independent specialists who have a deep understanding of things that big companies don't have the ability to do.

I think what we're in now is still every bit a media revolution ... but it's a personal media revolution. We can answer back if we want.

Just as people, after the tsunami, deployed this ad hoc array of Internet boxes and sensor devices in Asia, they will come in this time and do it again.

To me, the deal has the smell of inevitability to it. If it doesn't happen, for whatever reason, it would be a lost opportunity for both companies. The long-term trajectory of both these companies without each other is downwards.

Adding new software and more people to reduce the cost of collaboration is great -- as long as it doesn't create even more work. To really ease the work overload -- and, not coincidentally, make corporations more nimble -- it's also essential to identify and eliminate unnecessary interactions. Sometimes people need to remind themselves that there is an off switch -- and use it, ... Solitude is the scarce resource in business lives -- having that time when you are disconnected and realizing that everything will go along fine without you.

The lesson about all these things, it's the lesson from time capsules, is you have to be careful lest you set yourself up for enormous embarrassment in two decades. Do you really want to be reminded that you thought ABBA was cool

Browsers are becoming the default way to access information.

The irony, and I think this is true for all these labs, is a lot of these companies are like Moses. They led these industries to the Promised Land, but they're doomed to stay in the desert themselves.

The creative IT department is going to be where it's broken up so that IT people are out on the front lines.

With more technologies, there are more choices. Choose wisely and well. You don't have to read every e-mail you get you need to develop your own rules of thumb and steps to sanity.

It will be consumers who will decide those solutions are good ones or not, ... I can guarantee you that Bluetooth will end up having its most important uses being uses that nobody can guess at today.

We're not so many years away from companies offering kits for the compulsive, ... (But) anyone that compulsive isn't going to lose something.

Messages into the future is something that people have always sought to do. In a way, it's a statement of optimism.

The idea of fiddling with Microsoft applications will evaporate,

My nightmare fear is some congressman is going to seize on this and they're going to pass some laws, ... I can just see people overreacting and doing things that would invade people's privacy or tie up the Internet with so much security nonsense that innovation slows down.