Managers are important: they are leading the company and guiding and have to provide vision and manage the daily business. Hasso Plattner More Quotes by Hasso Plattner More Quotes From Hasso Plattner 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. Hasso Plattner modern data bigs I believe that whoever is successful should help ensure that the next generation can be successful, too. Hasso Plattner generations successful believe Business reporting is not dealing with objects, it is dealing with relationships between objects. Hasso Plattner objects 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. Hasso Plattner hot brain kids SAP would not be what it is today without Bill McDermott, bill made invaluable contributions to this company and he was a main driver of SAP's transition to the cloud, which will fuel our growth for many years to come. Hasso Plattner technology I am grateful for the great education at a public university that Germany gave me, and that - added to a little luck - allowed me to achieve. Education is the key to a career, and its basis has to be provided by government. Hasso Plattner i-am me grateful education We have to be able to adapt to new situation. It's another form of the definition of intelligent behavior. Hasso Plattner new situation intelligent behavior The software industry has to become better in componentization. That's a clear focus for most of the software companies. How components look, how they are maintained, the ability to maintain them separately. Hasso Plattner better look ability focus You cannot make money with a hockey team. You cannot make money with a hotel, either, and you cannot make money with a golf club. I have all three of them. When you have a certain amount of money, you do silly things - because it's pretty to have a golf course and it's interesting to have a hockey team. Hasso Plattner you team money golf This is where the world is going: direct access from anywhere to any type of data, whether it's a small piece of data or a small answer but a long algorithm to create that answer. The user doesn't care about this. Hasso Plattner small care long world 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. Hasso Plattner better fight you competition The Y2K problem is not caused by technical limitations. We simply forgot to think of the problem. Hasso Plattner technical limitations think problem There is this permanent hope in America that there is some new technology around the corner that will change the world. Hasso Plattner technology change hope world 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. Hasso Plattner difference see family blood Successful companies obviously have people with ideas and energy. Hasso Plattner energy successful people ideas I'm a Berliner - fast, loud, obnoxious, industrious, brutally open. Hasso Plattner fast open obnoxious loud 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. Hasso Plattner grow guitar hair long I'm not just a scientist. Hasso Plattner just scientist Americans are not afraid of the future. Hasso Plattner afraid future I made my money with software - encoded knowledge without which few products and services can exist today - and so it seemed imperative that this would be the field where I would give something back. Hasso Plattner back money today knowledge
