Top 30 Brian Krzanich Quotes

The phone space is tough because it is consolidated.

The difficult bosses – the ones that have been hard for me to work for – have been the ones where I never knew what success meant.

Hundreds a year are killed inspecting power lines, inspecting gas lines and cellphone towers. They fall. There are helicopter crashes. We can eliminate all that with autonomous drones and artificial intelligence.

CDK has a leadership position in a dynamic and rapidly evolving automotive technology market, and I am energized by the chance to help grow this unique company and take it to the next level.

Automobiles and the automotive industry are increasingly driven by data and computing. The saying ‘What’s under the hood‘ will increasingly refer to computing, not horsepower.

Data is going to be dynamic… and, combined with the performance of computing that allows for artificial intelligence to be applied, is going to bring all kinds of insights and additives to enhance everyday life.

I’ve always been a car guy.

We should honor – not attack – those who have stood up for equality and other cherished American values.

I don’t know marketing… clearly in engineering school you don’t get much marketing training.

In general, the PC’s always had a fairly decent tie to GDP.

Geek? Sure, call me that. I take that as a compliment.

America has a unique combination of talent, a vibrant business environment, and access to global markets, which has enabled U.S. companies like Intel to foster economic growth and innovation.

Our view is that Quark can make almost everything smart. We’ll show you some things that you would never have thought could become smart and communicate.

I want to be able to leave my phone at home.

I used to build my own PCs… and actually had one of the first water-cooled, overclocked PCs around. I ran it at over 4Ghz, and this was back in 2001… but alas, I do not have the time for that fun anymore.

Promoting American manufacturing should not be a political issue.

We expect the launches of Skylake, Microsoft‘s Windows 10 and new OEM systems will bring excitement to client computing in the second half of 2015.

When you want a raise, you’re not only going in saying: ‘I want more money.’ You’re going in and saying: ‘Here’s what I want out of my career. Here’s what I accomplished. Here’s what I said I was going to do. Here’s what I’ve done. Not only do I deserve more money, but I want to get to here on my career.’

Every two years, to keep Moore‘s Law happening, you have to invent… That’s where I grew up.

As an engineer, I tended to maintain my own equipment along with developing the processes for it.

You are not going to walk out one day and go to your local car dealer, and the lot is going to suddenly switch from non-autonomous cars to autonomous cars.

I look forward to working closely with the CDK Board, management team, and employees to enable CDK to meet its full potential to generate value for all of its stakeholders.

You could have the biggest screen, you could have the clearest screen. But if there is not great content on this thing, that big-screen TV is not a huge value to you, even though it has the best picture on the planet.

All of these technologies that we are putting together… our memory technology, our CPU, our graphics architecture, our GPUs – all that is being applied to where the data is. You can almost predict where Intel will be in the future. It will be where data resides.

If you don’t go talk to your boss, if you don’t go talk to your mentors, if you don’t go talk to people who can influence where you want to be, then they don’t know. And they’re not mind readers.

I’m a firm believer that autonomous driving is coming.

I think if you don’t give people the tools and the expectations for success, and yet hold them to some value, then you’re difficult to work with.

When you’re the first guy to put out the piece of silicon that’s half as expensive or twice as powerful, you bring a capability to the market that nobody else does – or can.

One thing I have always promised is to be open and transparent and to treat employees and partners with respect and integrity.

Anytime my daughter and I go for a hike, we bring a drone with us and get some really interesting views.