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.

About John Warnock

John Edward Warnockwas an American computer scientist, inventor, technology businessman, and philanthropist best known for co-founding Adobe Systems Inc., the graphics and publishing software company, with Charles Geschke in 1982. Warnock was President of Adobe for his first two years and chairman and CEO for his remaining sixteen years at the company.

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

John Warnock

American computer scientist, inventor and technology businessman (1940-2023)

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

American computer scientist, inventor and technology businessman (1940-2023)

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

American computer scientist, inventor and technology businessman (1940-2023)

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

American computer scientist, inventor and technology businessman (1940-2023)

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

American computer scientist, inventor and technology businessman (1940-2023)

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

American computer scientist, inventor and technology businessman (1940-2023)

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

John Warnock

American computer scientist, inventor and technology businessman (1940-2023)