Microsoft Quotes - Page 10

• MSN became a quagmire, partly because of Microsoft's hubris.

  Donald Clark

  Quagmire, Hubris, Parting

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• As a person with the retentive mental capacity of a goldfish and a dislike of repetition, I frequently make use of the thesaurus built into my Microsoft Word U.K. Software.

  Hans Rosling

  Microsoft Word, Use, Goldfish

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• As an investor in small companies, I don't care how rich Microsoft is. I care about what my opportunities are.

  Esther Dyson

  Opportunity, Care, Rich

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• When Paul Allen and I started Microsoft over 30 years ago, we had big dreams about software. We had dreams about the impact it could have.

  Bill Gates

  Dream, Impact, Years

  Bill Gates's speech at News Conference: A New Era of Technical Leadership at Microsoft in Redmond, Washington, news.microsoft.com. June 15, 2006.

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• Microsoft has one more shot at a role in smart phone software through its deployment on Nokia phones. Nokia is still the global market share leader in cell phones. Maybe it will work out, but this is hard to envision great success in the area coming on the heels of so much disappointment in missed opportunity in this important and visible category.

  David Einhorn

  Disappointment, Smart, Opportunity

  "Transcript of David Einhorn's Speech at the Ira Sohn Conference". www.businessinsider.com. June 2, 2011.

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• UNIX has a philosophy, it has 25 years of history behind it, and most importantly, it has a clean core. It strives for something - some kind of beauty. And that's really what struck me as a programmer. Operating systems that normal home users are used to, such as DOS and Windows, didn't have any way of life. Nobody tried to design Windows - it just grew in random directions without any kind of thought behind it. [...] I don't think Microsoft is evil in itself; I just think that they make really crappy operating systems.

  Linus Torvalds

  Philosophy, Home, Thinking

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• America glories in its tradition of the self-made individual. Political candidates compete to be a friend to entrepreneurs, and policymakers, imagining the next Microsoft or Google, design laws to back the innovator in the garage.

  Mark McKinnon

  Law, America, Self

  "America’s Artists Are the Ultimate Entrepreneurs: Let’s Give Them a Hand" by Mark McKinnon, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 12, 2011.

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• With Windows 8, Microsoft is trying to gain market share in what has been dominated by the iPad-type device. But a lot of those users are frustrated. They can't type. They can't create documents.

  Bill Gates

  Ipads, Frustrated, Trying

  "Bill Gates: Ipad Users 'Frustrated,' Need Microsoft Surface" By Matt Clark, www.ign.com. May 6, 2013.

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• I have a company that is not Microsoft, called Corbis. Corbis is the operation that merged with Bettman Archives. It has nothing to do with Microsoft. It was intentionally done outside of Microsoft because Microsoft isn't interested.

  Bill Gates

  Archives, Done, Operations

  "LOS ANGELES TIMES INTERVIEW : Bill Gates : A Seasoned Boy Wonder Still Searching for the Cutting Edge". Interview with Nancy Yoshihara, articles.latimes.com. December 10, 1995.

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• Microsoft's philosophy is to 'do things better.' And Vista has given us lots of opportunity to do that.

  Bill Gates

  Philosophy, Opportunity, Given

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• Coming from Google, you don't exactly spend a lot of time at Microsoft.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Google

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• That's why Apple, Microsoft and the big information technology companies have kept so much money registered abroad (although in US dollar accounts with a nominal foreign address's owner). They pretend to make their global income in Ireland. They have an office, which could be simply a postal drop box in Ireland, and claim to make all their money there, not in America.

  Michael Hudson

  Technology, Apples, America

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• There was nothing in the deal with Justice that would change Microsoft's business practices in any way.

  Tom Reilly

  Practice, Justice, Way

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• Microsoft is still not a black belt.

  Ken Kutaragi

  Black, Belts, Stills

  "Next-gen leaders talk about their consoles". Interview with Asahi Shinbun, www.gamespot.com. May 31, 2005.

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• Actual evil probably requires much more creativity, passion, and political ideology than anyone at or near the top of Microsoft seems to possess.

  Jon Katz

  Passion, Creativity, Evil

  "Uncle Sam Vs. Mr. Bill?" by Jon Katz, www.wired.com. October 28, 1997.

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• Modern cyberspace is a deadly festering swamp, teeming with dangerous programs such as 'viruses,' 'worms,' 'Trojan horses' and 'licensed Microsoft software' that can take over your computer and render it useless.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Horse, Humor

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• I watched as an extremely nerdy exhibitor - I'm talking about a guy who makes Bill Gates look like Brad Pitt.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Humor, Talking

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry in Cyberspace”, p.76, Ballantine Books

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• I view Linux as something that's not Microsoft - a backlash against Microsoft, no more and no less.

  Ken Thompson

  Views, Linux, Backlash

  "Unix and Beyond: An Interview with Ken Thompson". Computer 32 (5), (pp. 58-64), May 1999.

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• I'm simply too content doing what I want to do to really have a very negative attitude towards MicroSoft. They make bad products - so what? I don't need to care, because I happily don't have to use them, and writing my own alternative has been a very gratifying experience in many ways.

  Linus Torvalds

  Attitude, Writing, Care

  Source: www.linuxfocus.org

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• With 48 million subscribers through Xbox Live (silver and gold), Microsoft has a bigger audience than DirecTV.

  Nancy Tellem

  Xbox, Gold, Silver

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• It is easy to sympathize with the MIS staffs around the world, I mean who hasn't lost work due to Windows or a Microsoft application crashing?

  Chris DiBona

  Mean, World, Window

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• Most people know that there is this partnership between Yahoo and Microsoft on search.

  Ross Levinsohn

  People, Partnership, Knows

  "Ross Levinsohn Gives His First Interview Since Marissa Mayer Replaced Him At Yahoo" by Nicholas Carlson, www.businessinsider.com. October 31, 2012.

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• The rest of the world views the USA the way Silicon Valley views Microsoft. Except with tanks.

  Brad Templeton

  Views, Usa, Tanks

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• One thing I've always loved about the culture at Microsoft is there is nobody who is tougher on us, in terms of what we need to learn and do better, than the people in the company itself. You can walk down these halls, and they'll tell you, 'We need to do usability better, push this or that frontier.'

  Bill Gates

  People, Needs, Culture

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• On the Intel platform, Microsoft is the defacto standard. It's the weather.

  Jean-Louis Gassee

  Weather, Platforms, Standards

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