Andrew Grove - Quotes

Quotes

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  • "City College is the American Dream Machine."
  • "When TV first came, people tried to look at it as a radio with pictures. We're at the stage now where the Internet is TV with poor connections."
  • "A fundamental rule in technology says that whatever can be done will be done."
  • "Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive."
  • "Just as you would not permit a fellow employee to steal a piece of office equipment, you shouldn't let anyone walk away with the time of his fellow managers."
  • "Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite."
  • "You have to pretend you're 100 percent sure. You have to take action; you can't hesitate or hedge your bets. Anything less will condemn your efforts to failure."
  • "Technology happens, it's not good, it's not bad. Is steel good or bad?"
  • "People can't memorize computer industry acronyms"
  • "Your career is your business, and you are its CEO"
  • "Technology will always win. You can delay technology by legal interference, but technology will flow around legal barriers."

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