Hasso Plattner quotes

Business reporting is not dealing with objects, it is dealing with relationships between objects. (Hasso Plattner)

I believe that whoever is successful should help ensure that the next generation can be successful, too.

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New applications will have to deal with big data. We have to analyze it on the fly, so we have to have a system that is transactional and analytical at the same time. We cannot have a multi-stage system. This is too slow for modern applications.

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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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I can't control my frustration.

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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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I'm a Berliner - fast, loud, obnoxious, industrious, brutally open.

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