John Warnock quotes

John Warnock is a prominent American computer scientist and entrepreneur. Co-founder of Adobe Systems Inc., Warnock revolutionized the electronic document industry. With a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Utah, he developed the PostScript page description language, enabling high-quality printing of documents across different platforms. Warnock's pioneering work laid the foundation for Adobe Acrobat and PDF technology, streamlining document sharing and collaboration globally. Recognized for his contributions, he received numerous prestigious awards and honors. Today, John Warnock continues to inspire innovation as a respected figure in the tech industry.

The personal contact is a personal thing. The fact that some people don't know their neighbors, I don't think that technology is at fault. You don't lose anything with technology. You gain other avenues of understanding.

- John Warnock

What I try to do is factor in how people use computers, what people's problems are, and how these technologies can get applied to those problems. Then I try to direct the various product groups to act on this information.

- John Warnock

I have seen that technology has contributed to improved communication, that it's contributed to better health care, that it's contributed to better food supplies, that it has contributed to all the basic human needs.

- John Warnock

I would never speculate on the limit. Every time you speculate, you're way too conservative.

- John Warnock

Without television and mass communication, that knowledge wouldn't exist. So I think it actually has the possibility of turning people into more understanding and more empathetic people.

- John Warnock

We started the company out of frustration with the employer that we had because we were building great stuff and there was no way that this stuff was ever going to get into the hands of the people who could use it.

- John Warnock

I'm a pretty happy camper. Look a little more like Paul Newman, maybe. Haha.

- John Warnock