Hasso Plattner
Hasso Plattner
Hasso Plattneris a German businessman. A co-founder of SAP SE software company, he has served as Chairman of the Supervisory Board of SAP SE since May 2003...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth21 January 1944
CountryGermany
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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.
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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.
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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.
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We have to be able to adapt to new situation. It's another form of the definition of intelligent behavior.
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There is this permanent hope in America that there is some new technology around the corner that will change the world.
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Successful companies obviously have people with ideas and energy.
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I would have liked to grow up in Liverpool and become a rocker. I would have put my boots on, jeans and a leather jacket, and long hair and played the guitar.
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At Stanford, we teach 'design thinking' - that is, we put together small, interdisciplinary groups to figure out what the true needs are and then to apply the art of engineering to serve them.
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This is where the world is going: direct access from anywhere to any type of data, whether it's a small piece of data or a small answer but a long algorithm to create that answer. The user doesn't care about this.
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I'm a Berliner - fast, loud, obnoxious, industrious, brutally open.
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I will ask Mr. Gates to change his opinion about what is allowed to be around Windows and what is not.
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Kids only learn that the stove is hot when they put their finger on and they burn it. This, unfortunately, is the limitation of our precious brain.
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Business reporting is not dealing with objects, it is dealing with relationships between objects.
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I believe that whoever is successful should help ensure that the next generation can be successful, too.