Microsoft Quotes - Page 7

• Of course, I would like to know what [Sony and Microsoft] do with their machines, but there is no game that I feel the need to go see. So far, from what I’ve seen on the show this year, there does not seem to be any games that I would like to have created myself.

  Shigeru Miyamoto

  Years, Games, Doe

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• ... No one is less happy than I am with the performance of Microsoft stock! I've lost tens of billions of dollars this year - if you check, you'll see that's more than most people make in a lifetime!

  Bill Gates

  Years, People, Dollars

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• An awful lot of successful technology companies ended up being in a slightly different market than they started out in. Microsoft started with programming tools, but came out with an operating system. Oracle started doing contracts for the CIA. AOL started out as an online video gaming network.

  Marc Andreessen

  Successful, Technology, Different

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• I would buy a Mac today if I was not working at Microsoft.

  Jim Allchin

  Today, Macs, Ifs

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• I have a G4 at home. Theyre great machines for individual users, and I even know a few core Linux hackers who are having a lot of fun with them. But if you want to move the needle on the non-Microsoft desktop, youve got to look elsewhere.

  Nat Friedman

  Fun, Moving, Home

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• Most big companies don't like you very much, except hotels, airlines and Microsoft, which don't like you at all.

  Bill Bryson

  America, World, Like You

  Bill Bryson (2000). “The Complete Notes”, Random House

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• If you truly don't have competition, then zoom out until you can define some. Competition can be as simple as the reliance on the status quo, Microsoft (since at some point Microsoft will compete with everyone for everything), or researchers in universities. Pick something, because saying you have no competition at all is a nonstarter.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Simple, Competition, Zoom

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• English plus Microsoft equals a new cultural revolution a global means of communication that is irrepressibly contagious, adaptable, populist and subversive.

  Robert McCrum

  Communication, Mean, Revolution

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• Sometimes you have to suffer a little bit in your youth to motivate yourself to succeed in later life. If Bill Gates had got laid in high school, do you think there'd be a Microsoft?

  Greg Giraldo

  Funny, School, Thinking

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• If the DHS insists, as bureaucracies are apt to do, that open-source must be certified via a sanctioned, formal process, it will interfere with the informal process of open-source itself. It seems to me the DHS is trying to turn an open-source development project into a Microsoft (or IBM or Oracle) software development project. And we know what that means: more, not fewer, errors -- security and otherwise.

  Mark Hall

  Mean, Errors, Trying

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• Even before I helped to co-found Microsoft, I saw a connected future . . . I called that future The Wired World.

  Paul Allen

  World, Saws, Internet

  Paul Allen (2011). “Idea Man: A Memoir by the Cofounder of Microsoft”, p.205, Penguin

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• Putting Windows [3.11] on top of DOS is like putting whipped cream on a road apple [horse poop].

  Scott McNealy

  Horse, Apples, Poop

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• Microsoft went into orbit because it had a booster rocket attached to it called IBM.

  Bill Gates

  Orbit, Rockets, Computer

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• Nothing gives us greater pride than the importance of India's scientific and engineering colleges, or the army of Indian scientists at organizations such as Microsoft and NASA. Our temples are not the god-encrusted shrines of Varanasi, but Western scientific institutions like Caltech and MIT, and magazines like 'Nature' and 'Scientific American.

  Aravind Adiga

  Pride, Army, College

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• I don't really think anything Microsoft does puts pressure on Apple.

  Tim Cook

  Thinking, Apples, Pressure

  "Apple unveils Mac OS X Mountain Lion" by Josh Halliday, www.theguardian.com. February 16, 2012.

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• Microsoft certainly makes products for the Macintosh.

  Melinda Gates

  Macintosh, Products

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• In the first eight or so years at Microsoft, we were always chained to our terminals, and after I got sick the first time, I decided that I was going to be more adventurous and explore more of the world.

  Paul Allen

  Years, Eight, Sick

  "Wired Interview: Microsoft Co-Founder Paul Allen Talks Tech, Bill Gates, Chemo and Guitars". Interview with Sam Gustin, www.wired.com. April 18, 2011.

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• Toyota has announced it will start integrating Microsoft technology into their vehicles. It's perfect for the person who wants a car that crashes every ten minutes.

  Conan O'Brien

  Funny, Technology, Perfect

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• In my view, it’s irreverence, foolish confidence and naivety combined with persistence, open mindedness and a continual ability to learn that created Facebook, Google, Yahoo, eBay, Microsoft, Apple, Juniper, AOL, Sun Microsystems and others.

  Vinod Khosla

  Persistence, Views, Ebay

  "Vinod Khosla: Maintain the Silicon Valley Vision". bits.blogs.nytimes.com. July 13, 2012.

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• One of the ways that Microsoft beat Apple way back in the day was that they were a lot more open; today, in the world I come from, the free software and open-source world, Microsoft is not generally viewed as open; they're viewed as proprietary.

  Jimmy Wales

  Apples, World, Today

  "Open vs. Closed: Jimmy Wales on Being Open". Interview with Mathew Ingram, gigaom.com. April 29, 2010.

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• Absolutely determined to ensure that Microsoft complies fully with the 2004 anti-trust decision.

  Neelie Kroes

  Decision, Determined

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• The hugely popular Windows 95 operating system revolutionized the software world thanks to its capability of accomplishing the seemingly impossible task of making Bill Gates even richer than he already was.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Humor, Tasks

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry in Cyberspace”, p.4, Ballantine Books

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• There is competition, .. Can any Microsoft endure future competition without innovation? The answer is no. We've got to keep changing.

  Bill Gates

  Competition, Innovation, Answers

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• There's always been a belief that Microsoft would respond punitively if you did something they didn't like. You were afraid of Microsoft's reaction, .. That belief has been pretty much destroyed. Vendors, clients and customers feel pretty much free do whatever they have to do in their Microsoft relationship.

  Rob Enderle

  Clients, Belief, Like You

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• Microsoft has built loyalty at the end-user level, including upper management, .. That works for a while in the early stages of a product, but after a couple of years the blush fades from the rose. It's reality versus marketing.

  Murphy J. Foster, Jr.

  Loyalty, Couple, Reality

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