Hasso Plattner

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

We have to be able to adapt to new situation. It's another form of the definition of intelligent behavior.

I would have liked to grow up in Liverpool and become a rocker. I would have put my boots on, jeans and a leather jacket, and long hair and played the guitar.

I have always had confidence in my own ability.

Twice a week I would receive injections or IV's of Factor VIII which clotted the blood and then broke it down.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.