“Please, please, please, my dear competition. We can beat each other an...” — Hasso Plattner Quote

“Please, please, please, my dear competition. We can beat each other and fight each other as much as we want and argue, but do not predict how a system really works when you really don't know and don't want to know. Either be better informed, or don't do it.”

“Thirty percent of Americans have German blood in their family. I don't see any major difference in the engineering abilities of Americans and Germans.”

“There is this permanent hope in America that there is some new technology around the corner that will change the world.”

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

“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.”

“I create, for whatever reason, a busy schedule, but I watch hockey, all the games, either on the PC or TV. The world is now HD, and this is very good.”

“I never had many problems to do my music and to give it to a record company. Rarely do they try to argue with me about my music, probably because it's still too far-out.”

“When you write a book, and you argue a problem is complicated and multidimensional, it's very easy to read a slice of that book and say, 'Well, this is the part that either confirms or really challenges my biases, so that's what I'm going to say the entire book is about.'”

“My idea in terms of managing a narrative, or in thinking in my creative life, is that you could easily argue that the past, the present and the future all occur simultaneously, and if you can postulate that, then you're not strictly bound to a linear narrative.”

“Banking, I would argue, is the most heavily regulated industry in the world. Regulations don't solve things. Supervision solves things.”

“If you don't like what someone has to say, argue with them.”

“I think to myself, How would things be for me if my dad was still alive? Would we get along? Would we argue? You know, we never got to the falling-out stage with each other.”