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• Our goal in making these changes is to enable Microsoft to achieve greater agility in managing the incredible growth ahead and executing our software-based services strategy.

  Steve Ballmer

  Goal, Growth, Agility

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• A couple of years ago this guy called Ken Brown wrote a book saying that Linus stole Linux from me It later came out that Microsoft had paid him to do this

  Andrew S. Tanenbaum

  Couple, Book, Years

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• True, the name of the product wasn't so great. Kindle? It was cute and sinister at the same time - worse than Edsel, or Probe, or Microsoft's Bob. But one forgives a bad name. One even comes to be fond of a bad name, if the product itself is delightful.

  Nicholson Baker

  Cute, Names, Forgiving

  Nicholson Baker (2012). “The Way the World Works”, p.208, Simon and Schuster

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• In some far-off distant time, when the twentieth century history of primitive computing is just a murky memory, someone is likely to suppose that devices known as logic gates were named after the famous co-founder of Microsoft Corporation

  Charles Petzold

  Memories, Corporations, Logic

  Charles Petzold (2000). “Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software”, p.147, Microsoft Press

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• When I heard about the Microsoft Kinect, though, I felt an urgency rising in me. A game you played without touching any machinery? A chance to wave your hands around, Minority-Report style, and move things around on a screen? This sounded like almost too much fun, with gadget-y pizzazz that sounded astonishing.

  Susan Orlean

  Fun, Moving, Hands

  "Connected" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. December 17, 2010.

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• In my opinion MS is a lot better at making money than it is at making good operating systems.

  Linus Torvalds

  Funny, Humor, Opinion

  "The Pragmatist of Free Software: Linus Torvalds Interview". Interview with Hiroo Yamagata, www.tlug.jp. September 30, 1997.

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• When you say 'I wrote a program that crashed Windows,' people just stare at you blankly and say 'Hey, I got those with the system, for free.'

  Linus Torvalds

  Funny, Humor, People

  Post to comp.os.linux.development.apps newsgroup, groups.google.com. March 8, 1995.

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• Microsoft's only factory asset is the human imagination.

  Bill Gates

  Imagination, Factories, Assets

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• There are some things that money can't buy: peace of mind, for starters, and lean muscle mass. Neither the Queen of England nor the founder of Microsoft can put in an order for either one.

  Victoria Moran

  Queens, Order, Mind

  "The Case for Turning ‘Spa’ into a Verb" by Victoria Moran, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 11, 2011.

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• With all due respect to Microsoft and Intel, there is no substitute for being in the right place at the right time.

  Andy Grove

  Business, Luck, Finance

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• Internet Explorer, your honor, is the fruit of Microsoft's statutory violations and it should be denied them.

  Brendan Sullivan

  Honor, Fruit, Internet

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• I have approximately 70 messages on Xbox Live right now and half of them are, 'I'm going to kill you' and 'I'm going to find you and destroy you' and I haven't worked (at Microsoft) in two years. Even to this day people who don't know I left Microsoft still come after me.

  Stephen Toulouse

  Xbox, Years, Two

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• I believe there's plenty of market for each; we're talking about an ecosystem that is going to support billions of devices, so a competitive landscape is good for consumers, developers, and the platforms alike. Apple brings a smooth elegance to its devices and platform, with the best marketplace experience to boot. Google brings a higher volume of devices as well as a more diverse ecosystem to interact with. The real story here is that Microsoft is nowhere to be seen, ending a two-decade monopoly and creating biggest opportunity for software startups probably ever.

  Aaron Levie

  Real, Believe, Opportunity

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• Entrepreneurs always pitch their idea as 'the X of Y,' so this is going to be 'the Microsoft of food.' And yet disruptive innovations usually don't have that character. Most of the time, if something seems like a good idea, it probably isn't.

  Eric Ries

  Business, Character, Ideas

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• This is a great opportunity for Don, and I wish him success. I am incredibly proud of the work and vision culminating in Xbox One. I'm particularly excited about how Xbox pushes forward our devices and services transformation by bringing together the best of Microsoft.

  Steve Ballmer

  Xbox, Opportunity, Playing Games

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• There are a lot of things not going well for Microsoft right now - Microsoft reorganization appears to be rearranging the chairs on the Titanic.

  Adam Hartung

  Innovation, Reorganization, Chairs

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• Let's say a startup is hot. It ships something great, and it achieves success. Thus, it's able to attract the best, brightest, and most talented. These people have been told they're the best since childhood. Indeed, being hired by the hot company is "proof" that they are the A and A+ players; in fact, the company is so hot that it can out-recruit Google and Microsoft.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Success, Player, People

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• I think I am very goal oriented. I'd like to win the America's cup. I'd like Oracle to be the No 1 software company in the world. I still think it is possible to beat Microsoft.

  Larry Ellison

  Inspirational, Winning, Thinking

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• It's my job for Oracle, the number two software company in the world; to become the number one software company in the world. My job is to build better than the competition, sell those products in the marketplace and eventually supplant Microsoft and move from being number two to number one.

  Larry Ellison

  Inspirational, Jobs, Moving

  "Prophet of Software". Interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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• The opportunity ahead for Microsoft is vast, but to seize it, we must focus clearly, move faster and continue to transform. A big part of my job is to accelerate our ability to bring innovative products to our customers more quickly.

  Satya Nadella

  Jobs, Moving, Opportunity

  "Microsoft Names New Ceo, Gates' Role Changed" By Luke Karmali, www.ign.com. February 4, 2014.

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• A NASA-funded study estimates that if the price of a ticket to space approached $100,000, close to a million people would buy one. That's a $100 billion industry. Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen gave me $20 million in startup funding to go after that market.

  Burt Rutan

  Space, People, Tickets

  "After the X Prize". www.wired.com. December 1, 2004.

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• Microsoft could help Facebook with one of the biggest challenges, namely monetizing its traffic without reducing the user's experience. It's obvious that Microsoft needs traffic and Facebook needs search.

  David Einhorn

  Challenges, Needs, Helping

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

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• What happens to the Microsofts, Oracles and IBMs of the world is that when they get big enough, they don't think they need to bring that same level of focus and energy to the end-user experience.

  Aaron Levie

  Thinking, Focus, Energy

  "Why Consumer Style Sells in the Corporate World: 10 Questions With Box Ceo Aaron Levie". Wired Interview, www.wired.com. August 20, 2012.

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• At Microsoft, the magic of software is used to take on very interesting challenges.

  Jeff Raikes

  Interesting, Challenges, Magic

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Linux people do what they do because they hate Microsoft.

  Theo de Raadt

  Hate, People, Linux

  "Is Linux For Losers?" by Daniel Lyons, www.forbes.com. June 16, 2005.

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