36 Quotes by Parker Harris

I think the legacy is really the company that we built. That's what makes me happy. I'm a very simple person, so that's all I really need.

If you want a database, you don't go out and say you're going to write it. I see platforms as going in that direction.

We're paying a lot of attention to the iPad. But we're expanding that to a tablet focus.

Our output and continued success is all about our culture. Ours has to be highly collaborative, and we have company-wide events and processes to make sure everyone stays aligned.

I grew up in North Carolina. My father was a salesperson; he sold textiles.

After the dotcom boom blew up, it increased the focus on questions like, 'Why should I trust you to help run my business? How do I know you're not going to go away like every other company?' That was hard. We had to keep proving ourselves.

I took a detour to France in my senior year in high school. So that's part of what ended up sending me, actually, to Middlebury because I went to school with people who were more from the Northeast.

I have employees that are, you know, other types of diversity, coming to me and saying 'Well, why aren't we focused on these other areas as well?' and I said yes, we should focus them, but, you know, the phrase we use internally is, 'If everything is important, then nothing is important.'

Looking at the trends that we have gone through as a company, where we started the company, it's all about cloud computing, and we're still cloud computing. And then we went through this space on social. When Facebook came out, that was amazing.