Ray Ozzie famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Complexity kills. It sucks the life out of developers, it makes products difficult to plan, build and test, it introduces security challenges, and it causes end-user and administrator frustration.
-- Ray Ozzie

#Frustration #Technology #Challenges
I love software, because if you can imagine something, you can build it.
-- Ray Ozzie

#Imagine #Software
Those who can envision a plausible future that's brighter than today will earn the opportunity to lead.
-- Ray Ozzie

#Opportunity #Today
Regardless of past aspirations, this is the right time to be focusing on services for two specific reasons The increasing ubiquity of broadband has made it viable, and the proven economics of the advertising model has made it profitable.
-- Ray Ozzie

#Past #Ubiquity #Two
What held people together was the belief that you're really going to change the world. I think that's the nature of many startups. You believe that what you are doing is going to have a dramatic impact. You might not exactly know how, but you really have a belief. That keeps you going and going through many changes and a lot of uncertainty.
-- Ray Ozzie

#Believe #Thinking #Impact
There are pros and cons to taking money. The best kind of company is one where you don't have to take any moneyI funded the first few years myself. But eventually, I took some money from Mitch Kapor and then others. Not so much because I needed it at that point, but because I knew that, ultimately, you cannot accomplish something completely on your own. You really need to develop a network of people who win when you win.
-- Ray Ozzie

#Winning #Years #People

The Middle East has the highest unemployment percentage of any region in the world we have the largest youth cohort of history coming into the market place that frustration does translate into the political sphere when people are hungry and without jobs.
Big tears of frustration and exhaustion were streaming down his cheeks. But because of all the wrinkles, they weren't dripping off. They spread out and ran together again, leaving a watery film over his ruined face.
When you're playing somebody who's going through a lot - frustration and hardship - you're just purging all your emotions, and it feels really good to do that.
An interface can be a powerful narrative device. And as we collect more and more personally and socially relevant data, we have an opportunity, and maybe even an obligation, to maintain [our] humanity and tell some amazing stories.
The best technology is aimed far enough in the future that it stands out, but close enough to the present that it blends in.
Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?
Each day was a challenge of enjoyment, and he [Hemingway] would plan it out as a field general plans a campign.
For me, I am left leaning when it comes to health and education, on the right when it comes to defense. So I don't know where I come on the political spectrum. And I think this the challenge that a lot of Jordanians have to deal with.
The challenge, really, on any new film is to try to avoid that and achieve a few moments that aren't cliche.
It is very clear that one way to challenge insults is to submit to them.

Ray Ozzie famous quotes

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