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Chief Technology Officer Inspirational Quotes (29)

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Using clouds is a radical way of consuming IT. There are emotional barriers to giving up some level of control over the servers that you are running [for the companies].
Werner Vogels
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Everything fails, all the time.
Werner Vogels
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What sets the The Next Web apart is a focus on the internet as a key driver for a global market. Their international view is unique, making their blogs a must read and their conferences a must attend for professionals like me who do business around the globe
Werner Vogels
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If you aren't sure which way to do something, do it both ways and see which works better.
John Carmack
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If you're willing to restrict the flexibility of your approach, you can almost always do something better
John Carmack
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Programming in the abstract sense is what I really enjoy. I enjoy lots of different areas of it... I'm taking a great deal of enjoyment writing device drivers for Linux. I could also be having a good time writing a database manager or something because there are always interesting problems.
John Carmack
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A service is said to be scalable if when we increase the resources in a system, it results in increased performance in a manner proportional to resources added.
Werner Vogels
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I love that the world is data intensive … unfortunately, it's called 'Big Data.'
Werner Vogels
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It is not that uncommon for the cost of an abstraction to outweigh the benefit it delivers. Kill one today!
John Carmack
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If the web can be evolved to include the missing APIs and have better performance, [developers] won't need to go beyond the web.
Brendan Eich
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Note to self: Pasty-skinned programmers ought not stand in the Mojave desert for multiple hours.
John Carmack
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Rocket science has been mythologized all out of proportion to its true difficulty.
John Carmack
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The Xbox 360 is the first console that I've ever worked with that actually has development tools that are better for games than what we've had on PC.
John Carmack
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Making one brilliant decision and a whole bunch of mediocre ones isn't as good as making a whole bunch of generally smart decisions throughout the whole process.
John Carmack
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Sharing the code just seems like The Right Thing to Do. It costs us rather little, but it benefits a lot of people in sometimes very significant ways. There are many university research projects, proof of concept publisher demos, and new platform test beds that have leveraged the code. Free software that people value adds wealth to the world.
John Carmack
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Focused, hard work is the real key to success.
John Carmack
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Some cynical people think that every activity must revolve around the mighty dollar, and that anyone saying otherwise is just attempting to delude the public. I will probably never be able to convice them that that isn't always the case, but I do have the satisfaction of knowing that I live in a less dingy world than they do.
John Carmack
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It's a good thing Doom 3 is selling very well.
John Carmack
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At its best, entertainment is going to be a subjective thing that can't win for everyone, while at worst, a particular game just becomes a random symbol for petty tribal behavior.
John Carmack
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Low-level programming is good for the programmer's soul.
John Carmack
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I'd rather have a search engine or a compiler on a deserted island than a game.
John Carmack
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The cost of adding a feature isn't just the time it takes to code it. The cost also includes the addition of an obstacle to future expansion. ... The trick is to pick the features that don't fight each other.
John Carmack
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It's nice to have a game that sells a million copies.
John Carmack
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I like to think I'm pretty good at what I do.
John Carmack
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