Quotes by Michael J. Saylor - Page 1

Whenever teenage girls and corporate CEOs covet the same new technology, something extraordinary is happening.
Michael J. Saylor / Entrepreneur
Girl
Technology
Corporate
Extraordinary
New Technology
Teenage
Same
Ceos
Covet
Happening
Teenage Girls
Whenever
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I think my software is going to become so ubiquitous, so essential, that if it stops working, there will be riots.
Michael J. Saylor / Entrepreneur
Software
Working
Essential
Riots
Ubiquitous
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The old ways of teaching are slow and expensive. But with mobile, cost plummets, access broadens, and pedagogy rises.
Michael J. Saylor / Entrepreneur
Access
Cost
Expensive
Mobile
Old Ways
Slow
Rises
Ways
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I basically got an education in software on DuPont's money because they were too stubborn to admit that a recession was coming.
Michael J. Saylor / Entrepreneur
Software
Admit
Recession
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I'm not so naive as to think that everybody always succeeds, right? I mean, half of Shakespeare's stories are tragedies - right?
Michael J. Saylor / Entrepreneur
Half
Stories
Shakespeare
Succeeds
Tragedies
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My principal professional objective is to introduce intelligence as the ubiquitous utility. I'd like to be the Thomas Edison of intelligence.
Michael J. Saylor / Entrepreneur
Principal
Utility
Edison
Introduce
Objective
Thomas
Thomas Edison
Ubiquitous
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Nobody has really grasped yet the great wealth that can be made selling data over the Web. There are 100 million potential customers out there.
Michael J. Saylor / Entrepreneur
Customers
Data
Selling
Wealth
Nobody
Grasped
Million
Web
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Companies that make keys, credit card companies, any company in the service business - anything to do with a consumer is probably a software company.
Michael J. Saylor / Entrepreneur
Credit
Credit Card
Software
Card
Companies
Consumer
Service
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Why don't I talk about Big Data? Because I am focused on intelligent answers and not speeds and feeds. It doesn't matter if it is quick if it's the wrong answer.
Michael J. Saylor / Entrepreneur
Data
Intelligent
Smart
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You could call me on the phone and say, 'Someone blew up your entire house, Mike.' If it's not a person involved, I would sort of blink, whatever. That's all replaceable, right?
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Mike
Blew
Phone
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When you're building a company, you need to continually strengthen every component - finance, strategic partnerships, executive team, and relationships with every last constituency.
Michael J. Saylor / Entrepreneur
Finance
Company
Lasts
Needs
Strategic
Team
Component
Continually
Executive
Last
Partnerships
Relationships
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I've developed a much greater respect for our politicians and every high-tech CEO. It's very easy to read about the things they did that you, of course, would have avoided in hindsight.
Michael J. Saylor / Entrepreneur
Respect
Avoided
Ceo
Easy
Greater
Course
Read
Developed
Politicians
High-Tech
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The Saylor Foundation is meant to be a gadfly to encourage Google, Apple, MIT, Harvard, the United States government, and the Chinese government to aggressively pursue digital education.
Michael J. Saylor / Entrepreneur
Government
Apples
Chinese
Chinese Government
Digital
Google
Harvard
Meant To Be
Mit
Pursue
United States
United States Government
Apple
Meant
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I don't need a coach to tell me what to say. I need a coach to figure out what kind of shirt to wear and how to look at the camera and how to avoid, you know, picking your nose on camera.
Michael J. Saylor / Entrepreneur
Your Me Look
Avoid
Camera
Coach
Figure
Look Me Your
Wear
Nose
Picking
Shirt
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Bitcoin is a swarm of cyber hornets serving the goddess of wisdom, feeding on the fire of truth, exponentially growing ever smarter, faster, and stronger behind a wall of encrypted energy.
Michael J. Saylor / Entrepreneur
Technology
Truth
Bitcoin
Cyber
Energy
Faster
Feeding
Fire
Goddess
Growing
Serving
Smarter
Stronger
Wall
Behind
Exponentially
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What amplifies the transformational power ahead is the confluence of two major technological currents today: the universal access to mobile computing and the pervasive use of social networks.
Michael J. Saylor / Entrepreneur
Access
Computing
Confluence
Currents
Mobile
Technological
Ahead
Networks
Pervasive
Major
Social Networks
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The benefit of rich families putting their child through Harvard is always going to exist. But it's quite evident that there are 700 million peasants in China who are never going to go to Harvard.
Michael J. Saylor / Entrepreneur
China
Evident
Harvard
Peasants
Rich
Quite
Benefit
Exist
Always Never Go
Million
Putting
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Bitcoin is a bank in cyberspace, run by incorruptible software, offereing a global, affordable, simple an dsecure savings account to billions of people that don't have the option or desire to run their own hedge fund.
Michael J. Saylor / Entrepreneur
Affordable
Billions
Bitcoin
Cyberspace
Desire
Fund
Savings
Simple
Software
Account
Bank
Run
Option
Global
Hedge
Incorruptible
Savings Account
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I grew up in a family where no one had written a newspaper or magazine article about anybody in my family for a hundred years, right? Then, all of a sudden, we're getting one millennium's worth of media attention in six months.
Michael J. Saylor / Entrepreneur
Attention
Media
Millennium
Months
Six
Article
Hundred Years
Magazine
Newspaper
Sudden
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The industries that fall first are the industries that either produce electromechanical items that are now inferior to their software substitutes, or the industries that produce a mechanically created service that's now inferior.
Michael J. Saylor / Entrepreneur
Items
Produce
Software
Substitutes
Industries
Inferior
Service
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The basis of the free market is anytime you can generate revenue or profit, you've created value in excess of the resources you consume in a society. That's probably the most unbiased utility function there is, as opposed to someone's opinion.
Michael J. Saylor / Entrepreneur
Society
Excess
Free Market
Function
Opinion
Profit
Resources
Revenue
Unbiased
Utility
Free
Anytime
Basis
Consume
Generate
Market
Value
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Instead of five hundred thousand average algebra teachers, we need one good algebra teacher. We need that teacher to create software, videotape themselves, answer questions, let your computer or the iPad teach algebra... The hallmark of any good technology is that it destroys jobs.
Michael J. Saylor / Entrepreneur
Jobs
Teacher
Algebra
Average
Computer
Five
Hallmark
Hundred
Software
Teach
Thousand
Questions
Destroys
Instead
Ipad
Videotape
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There's nothing more frustrating than seeing cynics sit there and say, 'Well, nobody can make any more money because Microsoft and Intel own everything.' Is the software industry mature, or is it embryonic? I would say it's embryonic. There will be a hundred more Microsofts, not just one.
Michael J. Saylor / Entrepreneur
Frustrating
Hundred
Just One
Mature
Microsoft
Software
Cynics
Embryonic
Intel
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It's easy to fall into the trap of assuming that a new technology is very similar to its predecessors. A new technology is often perceived as the linear extension of the previous one, and this leads us to believe the new technology will fill the same roles - just a little faster or a little smaller or a little lighter.
Michael J. Saylor / Entrepreneur
Technology
Assuming
Fall
Faster
New Technology
Predecessors
Roles
Extension
Fill
Leads
Lighter
Perceived
Previous
Similar
Smaller
Trap
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We're in an inflection point where it's cheaper to learn to read on a tablet computer than it is to learn to read on paper. And that being the case, it's only a matter of time before every 6-year-old kid has a tablet computer, and we know for a fact, 3- to 4-year-old kids are using tablets and iPads, and 75 and 80 year olds are using them.
Michael J. Saylor / Entrepreneur
Cheaper
Computer
Ipads
Matter
Paper
Before
Case
Read
Fact
Learn
Point
Tablet
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