Hasso Plattner

“I can't control my frustration.”

“Business reporting is not dealing with objects, it is dealing with relationships between objects.”

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

“It's not good if owners of sports teams are talking to sports journalists, bypassing the manager. That goes in the wrong direction wherever it happens. Therefore, I'll refrain from doing this at all.”

“Successful companies obviously have people with ideas and energy.”

“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.”

“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.”