Famous quotes by John Warnock:
"Learning how to communicate your ideas on paper is very important. Get a good, strong foundation in the liberal arts, philosophy, mathematics, biology, physics, chemistry , history. Get a good, well-rounded education."
"This is really interesting. When I was in the 9th grade, I flunked 9th grade algebra. I couldn't cope with 9th grade algebra. And then I remember taking an aptitude test when I was a sophomore in high school, and they said, "You should probably consider not going to college." Then they said, "Well, what would you like to do?""
"We look at their ability to learn, how fast they are, how quick they are. And their experience. What have they done with their life? What concrete accomplishments have they made? Are they a finisher? When they start a project, can they finish the project, or do they start 20 projects and then have them all open-ended?"
"I have seen that technology has contributed to improved communication, that it's contributed to better health care, that it's contributed to better food supplies, that it has contributed to all the basic human needs."
"Without television and mass communication, that knowledge wouldn't exist. So I think it actually has the possibility of turning people into more understanding and more empathetic people."
"These are huge programs."
"[Aside from its financial troubles, he said, Xerox is suffering from a problem similar to the one that plagued Adobe and Apple a few years ago: a lack of confidence among investors and potential customers. In 1998, as Asia was undergoing a serious financial crisis,] Adobe hit some rough spots, ... Adobe seems strong now. The cachet is different. But Xerox is in a nosedive."
"The end game is to get to a point where there aren't any user interfaces."
"The whole market today is a little scary. I'm happy we retain any value,"
"Publishing now is more than publishing for print, and more than publishing for the Web, ... It's really a content aggregation and redeployment scheme that every organization has to have to get a handle on their communication problems."
"I would never speculate on the limit. Every time you speculate, you're way too conservative."
"What I try to do is factor in how people use computers, what people's problems are, and how these technologies can get applied to those problems. Then I try to direct the various product groups to act on this information."
