Scott McNealy
Scott McNealy
Scott McNealyis an American businessman. He co-founded computer technology company Sun Microsystems in 1982 along with Vinod Khosla, Bill Joy, and Andy Bechtolsheim. In 2010, he co-founded and is Executive Chairman of Wayin, based in Denver. and founded Curriki...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth13 November 1954
CountryUnited States of America
Scott McNealy quotes about
horse apples microsoft
Putting Windows [3.11] on top of DOS is like putting whipped cream on a road apple [horse poop].
phones light phone-calls
Computers shouldn't be unusable. You don't need to know how to work a telephone switch to make a phone call, or how to use the Hoover Dam to take a shower, or how to work a nuclear-power plant to turn on the lights.
business giving ruins
Only a monopolist could study a business and ruin it by giving away products..
choices innovation
Without choice, you have no innovation. Without innovation, you have nothing.
home office today
The utility model of computing - computing resources delivered over the network in much the same way that electricity or telephone service reaches our homes and offices today - makes more sense than ever.
distance moving believe
We believe we're moving out of the Ice Age, the Iron Age, the Industrial Age, the Information Age, to the participation age. You get on the Net and you do stuff. You IM (instant message), you blog, you take pictures, you publish, you podcast, you transact, you distance learn, you telemedicine. You are participating on the Internet, not just viewing stuff. We build the infrastructure that goes in the data center that facilitates the participation age. We build that big friggin' Webtone switch. It has security, directory, identity, privacy, storage, compute, the whole Web services stack.
thinking would-be controversial
If everyone thinks you're doing the right thing, then everyone would be doing it. Have a controversial strategy.
zero privacy over-it
You already have zero privacy - get over it.
technology bananas shelves
Technology has the shelf life of a banana.
leadership people wells
Get the best people and train them well.
expect legitimate speculate talk talking ways work
You can speculate all day long about all the different ways we can go and work together. They're all legitimate speculation, ... We only want to talk about what we're talking about here now ... we expect more.
blew energy fed government guys hard rising teeth
Those guys at the Fed blew it. They went the other way, right in the teeth of rising energy costs, ... We've had government overspending and overcharging at the same time. That's a hard hit.