Andy Grove
Andy Grove
Andrew Stephen "Andy" Grovewas a Hungarian-born American businessman, engineer, author and a science pioneer in the semiconductor industry. He escaped from Communist-controlled Hungary at the age of 20 and moved to the United States where he finished his education. He was one of the founders and the CEO of Intel Corporation, helping transform the company into the world's largest manufacturer of semiconductors...
NationalityHungarian
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth2 September 1936
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A fundamental rule in technology says that whatever can be done will be done.
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Just as we could have rode into the sunset, along came the Internet, and it tripled the significance of the PC.
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Not all problems have a technological answer, but when they do, that is the more lasting solution.
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Congress will pass a law restricting public comment on the Internet to individuals who have spent a minimum of one hour actually accomplishing a specific task while on line.
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Long distances used to be a moat that both insulated and isolated people from workers on the other side of the world. But every day, technology narrows that moat inch by inch. Every person in the world is on the verge of becoming both a coworker and a competitor to every one of us ... Technological change is going to reach out and sooner or later change something fundamental in your business world.
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Technology happens, it's not good, it's not bad. Is steel good or bad?
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I think Amazon is the preeminent pioneer in building a new way of doing commerce: personalized, database-driven commerce, where the big value is not in the purchase fulfillment, but in knowing as much about a customer base of ten or twenty million people as a corner store used to know about a customer base of a few hundred. In today's mass-merchandising world, that's largely gone; Amazon is trying to use computer technology to re-establish it.
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Technology will always win. You can delay technology by legal interference, but technology will flow around legal barriers.
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Leaders have to act more quickly today. The pressure comes much faster.
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Competition, ... the best place in the world to trade electronically by 2002.
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(Growth) is pretty broad in the Asia-Pacific region,
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I don't know where Blair got his numbers, but the CBI (Confederation of British Industry) where I talked this morning had a sell-out audience and they turned away as many people as were in the audience who wanted to hear about Internet commerce, ... That doesn't sound like an apathetic audience.
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I was really surprised by the lack of awareness, by the apathy two years ago, ... The absence of that today is not surprising.
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E-commerce does provide a very clear competitive advantage to companies that embrace it, ... Nothing can spur you on to be aggressive as much as seeing somebody who is outdistancing you.