Microsoft Quotes - Page 9

• Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. NO is the answer.

  Erik Naggum

  Technology, Answers, Linux

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• At Microsoft, we're investing heavily in security because we want customers to be able to trust their computing experiences, so they can realize the full benefits of the interconnected world we live in.

  Steve Ballmer

  Investing, Benefits, World

  "Tech titan's security product / Microsoft to release antivirus software for businesses" by Carrie Kirby, www.sfgate.com. October 7, 2005.

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• To blindly trust government is to automatically vest it with excessive power. To distrust government is simply to trust humanity - to trust in the ability of average people to peacefully, productively coexist without some official policing their every move. The State is merely another human institution - less creative than Microsoft, less reliable than Federal Express, less responsible than the average farmer husbanding his land, and less prudent than the average citizen spending his own paycheck.

  James Bovard

  Moving, Government, Average

  James Bovard (2015). “Freedom in Chains: The Rise of the State and the Demise of the Citizen”, p.272, Macmillan

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

  Jim Allchin

  Today, Macs, Ifs

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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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• 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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• Mac OS is just as vulnerable as Microsoft Windows

  Lance Ulanoff

  Window, Vulnerable, Macs

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• I am not out to destroy Microsoft, that would be a completely unintended side effect.

  Linus Torvalds

  Would Be, Sides, Computer

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• All of us who attended the meeting - including Microsoft - unanimously agreed that unilaterally extending the Java programming language would hurt compatibility among Java tools and programs, would injure other tools vendors and would damage customers' ability to run a Java-based software product on whatever platform they wished.

  James Gosling

  Running, Hurt, Tools

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• When burned on a CD, the human genome is smaller than Microsoft Office.

  Steve Jurvetson

  Cds, Office, Medical

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• While Microsoft does not share all of Oracle's ambitions for Java, we agree that it is a very valuable tool for software developers.

  Bill Gates

  Ambition, Doe, Tools

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

  Neelie Kroes

  Decision, Determined

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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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• 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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• 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 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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• Microsoft certainly makes products for the Macintosh.

  Melinda Gates

  Macintosh, Products

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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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• 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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