“There is an enormous difference between starting a company and running one. Thinking up great ideas, which requires mainly intelligence and knowledge, is much easier than building an organization, which also requires measures of tenacity, discipline, and understanding. Part of… — Robert X. Cringely Copy Share Image
The companies that can afford to do basic research (and can't afford not to) are ones that dominate their markets. ... It's cheap insurance,… — Robert X. Cringely Copy Share Image
Apple isn't the next Microsoft, you see. Apple is not the next anything because the role it aspires to transcends anything imaginable by Microsoft,… — Robert X. Cringely Copy Share Image
Hewlett Packard at one point had only three private offices. One belonged to Hewlett, one to Packard, and the third to a guy named… — Robert X. Cringely Copy Share Image
What you have to watch out for are the theories that claim to be infallible. Because the only way their believers can win is… — Robert X. Cringely Copy Share Image
There is a fantasy in Redmond that Microsoft products are innovative, but this is based entirely on a peculiar confusion of the words "innovative"… — Robert X. Cringely Copy Share Image
Apple and Google will compete like crazy for our data because once they have it we'll be their customers forever. — Robert X. Cringely Copy Share Image
“In 1979, for example, Microsoft gave Boeing Commercial Airplane Co. the right to buy any Microsoft product for $50 per copy, until the end… — Robert X. Cringely Copy Share Image
The simple rule about weapons is that if thery can be built, they will be built. — Robert X. Cringely Copy Share Image
“There are lots of people who aren't going to like this book, whether they are into morals or not. I figure there are three… — Robert X. Cringely Copy Share Image
For every hour of brains, you will be charged three hours. The other two hours go to management and project management, which is to… — Robert X. Cringely Copy Share Image
If you ask someone whether our Constitutional rights are being flushed down the porcelain oubliette, and their response is, "If I answer that honestly… — Robert X. Cringely Copy Share Image
More proof that trusting the Feds to protect our information is like hiring Homer Simpson to guard the donuts. — Robert X. Cringely Copy Share Image
