32 Quotes by Hasso Plattner

There is this permanent hope in America that there is some new technology around the corner that will change the world.

We have to be able to adapt to new situation. It's another form of the definition of intelligent behavior.

I create, for whatever reason, a busy schedule, but I watch hockey, all the games, either on the PC or TV. The world is now HD, and this is very good.

The software industry has to become better in componentization. That's a clear focus for most of the software companies. How components look, how they are maintained, the ability to maintain them separately.

It's not good if owners of sports teams are talking to sports journalists, bypassing the manager. That goes in the wrong direction wherever it happens. Therefore, I'll refrain from doing this at all.

Thirty percent of Americans have German blood in their family. I don't see any major difference in the engineering abilities of Americans and Germans.

Africa touches me. At night, there's this thought in your brain that a million years ago we started here.

Managers are important: they are leading the company and guiding and have to provide vision and manage the daily business.

The Y2K problem is not caused by technical limitations. We simply forgot to think of the problem.