There’s nothing more frustrating than seeing cynics sit there and say, ‘Well, nobody can make any more money because Microsoft and Intel own everything.’ Is the software industry mature, or is it embryonic? I would say it’s embryonic. There will be a hundred more Microsofts, not just one. Michael J. Saylor Read Quote
Companies that make keys, credit card companies, any company in the service business – anything to do with a consumer is probably a software company. Michael J. Saylor Read Quote
The industries that fall first are the industries that either produce electromechanical items that are now inferior to their software substitutes, or the industries that produce a mechanically created service that’s now inferior. Michael J. Saylor Read Quote
It’s easy to fall into the trap of assuming that a new technology is very similar to its predecessors. A new technology is often perceived as the linear extension of the previous one, and this leads us to believe the new technology will fill the same roles – just a little faster or a little smaller or a little lighter. Michael J. Saylor Read Quote
The Saylor Foundation is meant to be a gadfly to encourage Google, Apple, MIT, Harvard, the United States government, and the Chinese government to aggressively pursue digital education. Michael J. Saylor Read Quote
My principal professional objective is to introduce intelligence as the ubiquitous utility. I’d like to be the Thomas Edison of intelligence. Michael J. Saylor Read Quote
I’ve developed a much greater respect for our politicians and every high-tech CEO. It’s very easy to read about the things they did that you, of course, would have avoided in hindsight. Michael J. Saylor Read Quote
Instead of five hundred thousand average algebra teachers, we need one good algebra teacher. We need that teacher to create software, videotape themselves, answer questions, let your computer or the iPad teach algebra… The hallmark of any good technology is that it destroys jobs. Michael J. Saylor Read Quote
I basically got an education in software on DuPont’s money because they were too stubborn to admit that a recession was coming. Michael J. Saylor Read Quote
You could call me on the phone and say, ‘Someone blew up your entire house, Mike.’ If it’s not a person involved, I would sort of blink, whatever. That’s all replaceable, right? Michael J. Saylor Read Quote
