top of page
Quote_1.png
Scott Cook

"Even some of the greatest technology-led revolutions, or allegedly technology-led, really were only made possible because of trends already present."

Standard 
 Customized
"Even some of the greatest technology-led revolutions, or allegedly technology-led, really were only made possible because of trends already present."

Exlpore more Technology quotes

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"Thanks to the internet, you can provoke thoughts of those in mansions, from the uncomfortableness of your shack."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"Social networking platforms drove man closer to those in neighboring continents, while driving him further apart from those in his neighborhood."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"Advanced technology does not always promise a more intelligent civilization. On the contrary, the more the common people rely on technology to do their thinking and solving for them, the less practice there is left for their own brains."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"It feels wistful to imagine a time when people didn't go about their daily routine with the assumption that at any moment another massive media technology will be dumped on us by some geek in California."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"Technology empowers the less empowered. If there is a strong force that bring a change in the lives of those on the margins it is technology. It serves as a leveler and a springboard."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"New technologies and resources offer exciting opportunities. They democratise access to information."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"There is a difference between what technology enables and what historical business practices enable."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"If e-book readers were invented before print books, (petty things such as) the smell of ink would have been some people's only reason for not abandoning e-books."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"The ultimate form of our technological achievement will be identical to the beginning state of this nature."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"The civilized man is technologically ahead of - intellectually behind - his time."

Explore more quotes by Scott Cook

Quote_1.png
Scott Cook
"Thirty to 40 years ago, most financial decisions were fairly simple."
Quote_1.png
Scott Cook
"Fifty years ago wealth was stored and transmitted physically through gold bars, stock certificates, bank notes, and coins."
Quote_1.png
Scott Cook
"People don't place their trust in government or company pension plans; they have to be self-reliant."
Quote_1.png
Scott Cook
"Even the once simple home mortgage now has so many flavors and styles and variations that it is difficult for people to make a decision."
Quote_1.png
Scott Cook
"Today more people believe in UFOs than believe that Social Security will take care of their retirement."
Quote_1.png
Scott Cook
"QuickBooks - the very fact that we could even dream to make something in the business arena, and that it would then succeed - was a total revolution to me."
Quote_1.png
Scott Cook
"A whole generation of Americans will retire in poverty instead of prosperity, because they simply are not preparing for retirement now."
Quote_1.png
Scott Cook
"Subsequent to the original Quicken, the whole idea that we, as a consumer products company, could actually make business products, that was a whole revolution in our thinking."
Quote_1.png
Scott Cook
"We're still in the first minutes of the first day of the Internet revolution."
Quote_1.png
Scott Cook
"Be dramatically willing to focus on the customer at all costs, even at the cost of obsoleting your own stuff."
bottom of page