Scott McNealy Quotes (85 Quotes)


    a lot of money flowing both ways if we do this right.

    Students today are raised on technology, fundamentally changing the educational environment and how students interact, learn and share. Continued focus on eliminating barriers to education by leveraging technology and the network will help bridge the digital divide and deliver world-class education to everyone. Today's students are the leaders of tomorrow and it is our duty to provide the education they need to shape the future.

    The collaboration that we are announcing today with Sony will unleash the power of the Internet in networked consumer electronic devices, forever changing the way people think of them.

    They were arguing about this 500 years ago, they will be arguing about it 500 years from now.

    I think the stock market is never rational at any moment in time, but over (long periods of) time, it is.


    Shame on us if we can't deliver some growth and profits over the next twelve months.

    I've had a pretty good couple of weeks, I don't know about you all,

    It's going to get scarier if we don't come up with technology and rules to protect appropriately privacy and secure the data, and the most important asset we have is obviously the data on people--our customers and employees and partners. And if we can't protect that, people are not going to go online.

    We're upping the ante in the server and network computing market, ... Our RD investment is delivering products that are setting new industry benchmarks, and providing customers with more innovation and choice. With a billion people on the global network today, and millions more joining each week, Sun is redefining the market in the Participation Age. Sun is delivering significant performance gains, while helping customers reduce power consumption and overall costs.

    We are working with the (Chinese) government and other key players to establish Java as the industry standard for delivering open and secure services.

    When Steve Ballmer calls me wacko, I consider that a compliment.

    Our success in the first quarter came at the expense of our traditional competitors. We gained share in many of our key markets, especially in servers for the Internet and service providers.

    I can't figure the stock market out. I think it's wacky. I have done well with a long-term strategy and will continue being a long-term investor.

    The utility model of computing - computing resources delivered over the network in much the same way that electricity or telephone service reaches our homes and offices today - makes more sense than ever.

    Microsoft is a monopoly -- that's pure and simple in my view. There's no question that Microsoft is able to breach a contract because they have monopoly power. I believe that would be a very positive step forward in the Microsoft case,

    I think there was some incentive and motivation to do the right thing.

    We are actively promoting Java in China as well as the rest of Asia-Pacific,

    People are just going to our Web site and downloading it like crazy.

    I wasn't going to hand it off when it was deteriorating. We showed wonderful growth last quarter.

    Only a monopolist could study a business and ruin it by giving away products.

    Large enterprises cannot stop investing in this Internet technology, ... They do so at great peril.

    What we're doing is resizing the company, not re-aiming it,


    I have this conversation with Scott a lot, ... He always wonders if I'm mad at him for going into competitive markets, and the answer is no, because I don't think they stand a chance. Bless their heart, it's not what they do well. I think it's going to be really hard for an open standards company like that to get deep into the software business.

    We're not talking about new regulation. We are only talking about enforcing the laws that have been on the books and that have gone after the railroads, the telephone companies, everybody's who's had a monopoly in the past.

    After a year in which IBM and HP threw everything they could at us, including old products with new names and new products with 'super' names, we still took market share away from them, ... This time we're tearing into what those re-branded mainframe makers thought was their safe haven -- continuous up time, round-the-clock availability, and investment protection -- and bringing it to customers who understand the value of a dollar.

    It's all about the data, gang it's not about the storage. The world is changing, we are moving from the era of the Internet age into the participation age, where everyone is on the Internet and everyone is a publisher, an editor.

    The new model here says there is no operating system industry and there is no applications industry -- it's all going free,

    Sun takes great pride in its impeccable reputation as a transparent and compliant organization. With the addition of Bob to Sun's board and the appointment of Mike as Sun's new CFO, I'm 100 percent confident that the strong tradition will continue and I look forward to working with them both in their new roles.

    It's not just workstations or servers that are getting hooked to the Internet, but everything with a digital or electronic heartbeat,

    Computers belong in the boiler room, appliances belong in your hand,

    We think computing ought to be like a telephone or a water tap or a light switch.

    I don't believe Microsoft has innovated. I don't believe they have driven and created the industry. I think it's been done by a whole bunch of folks.

    The backlog is the highest in years and this increase in bookings and demand is driving improved business fundamentals.

    The point here is both companies are dedicated to software as a service, and the network as the computer,

    This is a big deal. It's a fairly natural partnership it shouldn't surprise people, ... We're working on bringing this network-is-the-computer, Net services environment.

    Since joining Sun in 1996, Jonathan has been a driving force within the company.

    What Lucent is to dial-tone, we want to be to...mail tone, web tone, e-commerce tone, all the new digital tones,

    If I could embed a locator chip in my child right now, I know I would do that. Some people call that Big Brother; I call it being a father.

    Janet Reno and Joel Klein have one heck of a case against Microsoft that's going to make the Nixon tapes and Clinton video look tame.

    We had to stabilize things before I handed this off. The next step is consistent profitability.



    This isn't about me. It's about a big moment in Sun's history and I'm proud to share that with you. There's lots more work to do and I'm certainly going to stay around and support that.

    The only responsible thing is to let the new guy get all the triumph and glory.

    that have scale, that have a good brand name, that have a good management team, are going to do well.

    He opened with a new one-liner about Microsoft's new advertising slogan Microsoft is now talking about the digital nervous system, ... I guess I would be nervous if my system was built on their technology too.

    The technology industry is consolidating. People are trying to figure out who the winners are and who the losers are.

    Computers shouldn't be unusable. You don't need to know how to work a telephone switch to make a phone call, or how to use the Hoover Dam to take a shower, or how to work a nuclear-power plant to turn on the lights.

    The point is, is the government in the business of maintaining IT infrastructure I don't think so.


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