30 Quotes by David Patterson

Our goal is to create technology that will enable individual inventors and entrepreneurs to provide new services of value similar to large Internet services people use every day. The companies benefit by witnessing ideas in pre-competitive technologies at the early stages of development, and they will help point out the real-world obstacles that must be overcome.

I.T. firms still must consider that there are threats involving information security and privacy.

I think he should have won the Nobel Prize. I don't know why he didn't. He was sort of a shy person who didn't promote himself outside the scientific community. He would rather work in the lab.

I think the teams struggled when we were in those situations too.

I'm impressed with one or two of the newcomers.

Most of the positions being outsourced are at the bottom of the totem pole, such as call-center jobs, but those jobs, in turn, lend themselves to automation, which means that the people doing them could themselves be replaced.

We are creating an open-source toolkit for Internet research.

We're trying to sustain the broad vision, high-risk and high-reward research model.

Even though we've stayed very successful it's still been a struggle for our kids. There are times they'd like to get away from it. They joke about not being able to drive down the road without seeing their mom's face on a billboard or seeing her on TV.