Steve Jobs

Microsoft has had two goals in the last 10 years. One was to copy the Mac, and the other was to copy Lotus' success in the spreadsheet - basically, the applications business. And over the course of the last 10 years, Microsoft accomplished both of those goals. And now they are completely lost.

American Businessman

Neal Shusterman

I have a color-coded computer spreadsheet that divides things down to chapter fragments. Each character's point-of-view is a different color. The text of the manuscript is color-coded the same way. The last thing I do before submitting the manuscript is turn all those colors back to black.

American Author

Rodney Brooks

With the revolution around 1980 of PCs, the spreadsheet programs were tuned for office workers - not to replace office workers, but it respected office workers as being capable of being programmers. So office workers became programmers of spreadsheets. It increased their capabilities.

Australian Scientist

Patricia Arquette

Financiers don't support their directors to cast properly. They don't have the vision of an artist. They're casting to spreadsheets, and it's making movies very mediocre. The movie business used to just be called the movies. Now it should be the business movies.

American Actress

Jon Taffer

If you can't build a relationship with your customers, you're in big trouble. If you can remember the numbers from the reports and spreadsheets you spent hours poring over in your office, but you can't picture the faces of your customers - you're in big trouble.

Dan Gilbert

One of our things is that money follows; it does not lead. So we want people that are fired up and passionate about their mission... and people that aren't so married to spreadsheets and thinking that kind of voodoo controls the future. Because it doesn't.

American Coach

Steve Case

Most of the people who had PCs did not have modems and could not use those PCs as communicating devices. They really were using them for spreadsheets or word processing or storing recipes or playing games or what have you.

Phil Bredesen

The consequences of decisions don't just affect spreadsheets... They affect, in fundamental ways, the lives of people and they often mean the difference between life and death.

American Politician

George Groves

I know how to read a spreadsheet, I know what I'm worth so I can go into meetings and say, 'I get paid that much, thank you.

British Athlete

Nate Silver

If I had a spreadsheet on my computer, it looked like I was busy.

American Writer

Spreadsheets are for organizing data neatly, especially for analysis or presentation.

Data Organization

Spreadsheets can perform complex calculations using formulas, making math tasks easier.

Calculation Tool

In a business context, spreadsheets are common for finance, inventory, and scheduling.

Business Commonplace

 which, in this world, is increasingly rare. Now, almost all of the 75 people I emailed anonymously responded. And then two dozen other people actually emailed to participate to this anonymous email address, but I confirmed that they did in fact have the jobs they claimed to have. And I then compiled the votes into a spreadsheet,

How I accidentally...

 but it respected office workers as being capable of being programmers. So office workers became programmers of spreadsheets. It increased their capabilities. They no longer had to do the mundane computations, but they could do something much more. Now today, we're starting to see robots in our lives.

Rodney Brooks: Why we...

 than if you actually acknowledge that quite a lot of the credit for a company's success might actually lie somewhere else, in small pieces of tactical activity. But what is happening is that effectively -- and the invention of the spreadsheet hasn't helped this; lots of things haven't helped this --

Rory Sutherland: Sweat...

 there is a spreadsheet or at least a database entry that records your information of where you've been at all times. If you have a cell phone, and that cell phone has GPS, but even if it doesn't have GPS, it can record your information. In this respect, location has been datafied.

Kenneth Cukier: Big data...

 what's going on in their private lives, what society needs. These are all questions and elements that are very hard to put into a spreadsheet, into an algorithm. It's very hard to make them part of our rational decision. But if we miss these, we're missing key important points,

The surprising...

 our lived reality something that the human brain is good at you see the human mind is all naturally actually amazingly good at detecting patterns out in the world around us so the intuition here is we're not as equally as good and understanding a spreadsheet think of the

How data helps us...

 Now, you don't get taught this in engineering school -- -- and it's not really the kind of thing you want to get wrong, so he could have spent months talking to vets, doing the research, tweaking the spreadsheet. Instead, he asked for help

Margaret Heffernan: Why...

 Doc and it's literally generating itself from that data so the data is now alive this is a living image and I can update it in a second new evidence comes out I just change a row on a spreadsheet doosh again this the imagery recreates

The beauty of data...

 back and by the time I'd reached the end I was looking forward to going home and really savoring my timer among family and friends I began planning this journey with real naivety in fact I've got an Excel spreadsheet out I've

Tim Cope: On the Trail...

 And maybe she might have an avoidance strategy around both her money and her relationships. It's been six years since I first help her chart her finances, and she's still consistently keeping up with her spreadsheet.