Top 195 Cloud Quotes

In the post-Snowden world, you need to enable others to build their own cloud and have mobility of applications. That’s both because of the physicality of computing – where the speed of light still matters – and because of geopolitics.

When I wrote ‘The World Is Flat,’ I said the world is flat. Yeah, we’re all connected. Facebook didn’t exist; Twitter was a sound; the cloud was in the sky; 4G was a parking place; LinkedIn was a prison; applications were what you sent to college; and Skype, for most people, was a typo.

Now suddenly there was nothing but a world of cloud, and we three were there alone in the middle of a great white plain with snowy hills and mountains staring at us; and it was very still; but there were whispers.

The industry trend is that everything is moving to the cloud, and most of our customers are in this very heterogeneous world.

We must not allow last year’s mistakes to cloud our judgment today.

The cloud never comes from the quarter of the horizon from which we watch for it.

Companies usually are not able to provision accurately the amount of data center capacity that they require, and this problem recurs when they create their own internal cloud infrastructure.

Numerous have been the manifestations of God’s providence in sustaining us. In the gloomy period of adversity, we have had ‘our cloud by day and pillar of fire by night.’ We have been reduced to distress, and the arm of Omnipotence has raised us up.

I think really what cloud customers care about is, can they get their problem solved on any particular provider’s cloud products?

If you learned how to make a cloud, your time is not wasted.

I’m a very big proponent of cloud. We’ve used it a lot in private sector, and as far as we can tell, it is not only more efficient, it’s probably also more secure for lots of very complicated technical reasons. I think it’s a very important thing for government to do, and also to have systems that talk to each other.

In the case of Comcast, we’re taking a lot of our technology into the cloud, so you don’t need a new box every time you want to innovate. And it’s all speeding up.

Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint.

The cloud has become the next-generation supercomputer, and the smartphone has provided the revolution to spur its use.

All the adversity and discouragement is trying to cloud your mind. But I learned to deal with it. In the end, I’m happy and thankful and blessed.

When I close my eyes, I still see things no one should ever experience: a bright red light, the black cloud soon after, people running in every direction trying desperately to escape – I remember it all.

It is impossible to identify a nice scent from within the chemical cloud of a perfume department.

Digital India is about empowering the citizen – it’s mobile, it’s cloud, it’s storage – we are in all those areas.

If I win seven tournaments in a row, I get so confident I’m in a cloud. A loss gets me eager again.

The Accenture hybrid class solution for Microsoft Azure will provide a new wave for our clients to transform to a truly enterprise wide hybrid cloud environment.

I try and stay positive; being negative isn’t good for my personality. I don’t just bring myself down, I bring everyone around me down. It’s like a dark cloud, ‘Uh oh, here we go,’ and have to snap out of it.

The younger generation of filmmakers is concerned about our roots, rather than making films with characters plucked out of the cloud or some English DVD. Actually since 2000, Tamil cinema is going through some positive changes.

We will continue to invest in high-growth areas… with a particular focus on digital, cloud, and security services.

The ’90s were extremely diverse, almost like a laboratory of the new century. There was much experimenting around, in politics, economics, gender and family structures, and also in fashion. There was a cloud of possibilities which kept us all dizzy.

We may yet work up to some serious shooting war, or maybe some acts of urban genocide committed with rogue nuclear weapons. But if that were the case, why would we call that ‘9/11’? If Washington disappeared in a mushroom cloud, we’d give that huge event a different name.

So when I’m tweeting with people, I’m just surprised that anybody wants to talk to me, to be honest with you. So I’m still walking on cloud nine while I get to do that stuff with people.

We have, of course, all of our Oracle technologies in our cloud. But I don’t think you’re going to see customers wanting to deal with 50 clouds or 40 clouds or anything like that.

‘Cloud Atlas’ is for everybody. The main character in the movie is humanity.

I think if you’re an interesting person, you don’t have to cloud yourself in mystery for people to want to know more about you.

Cloud computing is a fact of life.

I received a call for getting selected in ‘Cartel’ on December 4, my birthday. I was on cloud nine and absolutely overjoyed hearing the news.

Heads of France lead from a palace, and traditionally they retire to a cloud.

I called it ‘Cloud 9’ because that’s the place I want to take people when they are listening to my music. It’s also where I am when I make music.

We inherit every one of our genes, but we leave the womb without a single microbe. As we pass through our mother’s birth canal, we begin to attract entire colonies of bacteria. By the time a child can crawl, he has been blanketed by an enormous, unseen cloud of microorganisms – a hundred trillion or more.

My undergrad degree was in graphic design, and I don’t work in that anymore, but I obviously do a lot of design and editing and Photoshopping, and the Adobe Creative Cloud is essential!

Imagine if we can get information from sensors, compute it in the cloud, and find and plug water leakages – leakage wastes 20 per cent water in the world.

I feel like I’m on cloud nine right now.

If you are in this business long enough, you hear about a thousand things that are going to kill you. Open source? Yeah, we are not dead yet. Cloud? That’s not new; it’s a new name.

The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else’s cloud. Somebody who may not look like you. May not call God the same name you call God – if they call God at all. I may not dance your dances or speak your language. But be a blessing to somebody. That’s what I think.

You can’t understand Twenties England until you appreciate it was under a cloud of mourning. Nearly everyone was grieving.

But then in novels the most indifferent hero comes out right at last. Some god comes out of a theatrical cloud and leaves the poor devil ten thousand-a-year and a title.

You can’t replace luck and timing. With Workday, our timing was perfect. We started in 2005 right as cloud computing was beginning to take off.

It is during fertility that a female loses herself and enters that cloud overly rich in estrogen.

Filecoin is a decentralized storage market – think of it like Airbnb for cloud storage – where anybody with extra hard drive space can sell it on the network.

We believe that cloud will be based on significant open-source components that are offered as services. People don’t want to be locked into a single provider.

There’s no question: the finance market is moving into the cloud.

In the language of poetry, where every word is weighed, nothing is usual or normal. Not a single stone and not a single cloud above it. Not a single day and not a single night after it. And above all, not a single existence, not anyone’s existence in this world.

Cloud computing eliminates capital expenditure, so you can go global very quickly – you don’t have to have extensive servers in every country.

I had done a cover of the song ‘Nenani Neevani’ and put it up on Sound Cloud, which Sunny M.R., the music composer of Rowdy Fellow, came across. He liked it and approached me for ‘Yedho.’

What if life is not carbon-based? Can life exist as a gas or a plasma? Could planets or stars in some sense be alive? What about an interstellar cloud? Could life exist on such a small or large scale, or move so fast or so slowly that we wouldn’t recognize it? Could you have an intelligent virus?

Many people can rightfully claim, as much as anyone can rightfully claim anything, that much of their lives have been spent stumbling through a cloud of cluelessness.

The only way to predict if there’s a cloud on your horizon due to glaucoma is to get tested. No matter what the diagnosis, the forecast is for clear vision in the years ahead.

In Hong Kong, ‘wonton’ means swallowing a cloud.

There is a $30 bn. opportunity in the cloud.

Any football player will tell you that in July you get this dark cloud over you if you know camp’s coming.

We’re going to find Marses and maybe Earths out in the solar system’s attic of the Oort Cloud and the Kuiper Belt.

A dark cloud is no sign that the sun has lost his light; and dark black convictions are no arguments that God has laid aside His mercy.

If we as a society do not understand ‘the cloud,’ in all its aspects – what data it holds, how it works, what the bargains are we make as we engage with it, we’ll all be the poorer for it, I believe.