I don't believe in government regulation of the software…

We have over 60 million machines that can take the same diskette, plug it in and immediately ah, that that software's working. And so…

— Bill Gates

There's nothing more frustrating than seeing cynics sit there and say, 'Well, nobody can make any more money because Microsoft and Intel own everything.'…

— Michael J. Saylor

The software industry has to become better in componentization. That's a clear focus for most of the software companies. How components look, how they…

— Hasso Plattner

The most amazing achievement of the computer software industry is its continuing cancellation of the steady and staggering gains made by the computer hardware…

— Henry Petroski

Software-industry battles are fought by highly paid and out-of-shape nerds furiously pounding computer keyboards while they guzzle diet Coke. The stakes aren't very dramatic.…

— Nathan Myhrvold

“If you want to be lied to, all you have to do is believe everything that the government tells you.”

— Steven Magee

I paid every effort to seek deregulation throughout FEDEX's start-up and expansion periods, because the biggest impediment to our growth was the government regulations…

— Frederick W. Smith

[Government] regulation is an imperfect substitute for the accountability, and trust, built into a market in which food producers meet the gaze of eaters…

— Michael Pollan

Conservatives... are so opposed to government regulations that they are skeptical of anyone who identifies a problem that requires regulatory solutions - and they…

— Joseph J. Romm

“Any time people create a "black market" to avoid government regulation, they are engaged in, and promoting, free market economics.”

— Dave Champion

The oil industry is hardly free to operate as efficiently as it could or to be as responsive to consumer demands as it would…

— Mark Levin

“government regulation cannot substitute for individual integrity.”

— Alan Greenspan

People are tired of wasteful government programs and welfare chiselers, and they are angry about the constant spiral of taxes and government regulations, arrogant…

— Ronald Reagan

The trouble with government regulation of the market is that it prohibits capitalistic acts between consenting adults.

— Robert Nozick

Fraud will always exist. Enforcement of anti-fraud laws is a useful deterrent, but in the end there's no substitute for investor vigilance. Government regulations…

— John Stossel