Microsoft Quotes · Page 4

If Alibaba cannot become a Microsoft or Walmart, I will regret it for the rest of my life.

— Jack Ma

I’d like to own Microsoft shares until I either give something to charity or I die.

— Steve Ballmer

I failed in some subjects in exam, but my friend passed in all. Now he is an engineer in Microsoft and I…

— Bill Gates

With 48 million subscribers through Xbox Live (silver and gold), Microsoft has a bigger audience than DirecTV.

— Nancy Tellem

Remember, just because Microsoft can do something, doesn't mean you can. Microsoft makes their own gravity. Normal rules don't apply to them.

— Joel Spolsky

For the last 15 years, Microsoft's master business plan seems to have been, Wait until somebody else has a hit. Then copy it.

— David Pogue

To me, Microsoft is about empowerment... we are the original democratizing force, putting a PC in every home and every desk.

— Satya Nadella

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

— Bill Bryson

With the general availability of Windows 8/RT and Surface, I have decided it is time for me to take a step back…

— Steven Sinofsky

Unlike the phone system, the Internet has no Ma Bell or FCC to mandate new policies for the entire system. Not even…

— Paul Boutin

When deep space exploration ramps up, it'll be the corporations that name everything, the IBM Stellar Sphere, the Microsoft Galaxy, Planet Starbucks.

— Chuck Palahniuk

Our leadership [in Microsoft ] has that - "hey, we are the best in certain ways," and so we get the best…

— Bill Gates

If an innovative piece of software comes along, Microsoft copies it and makes it part of Windows. This is not innovation; this…

— Larry Ellison

Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster. (Or, sometimes known by] Grove [the head of Intel] giveth and Gates [the head…

— Niklaus Wirth

I think MySpace is doomed, I give them about two more years… I think Facebook is the next Microsoft in both the…

— Jimmy Wales

Microsoft unleashed something called Bob, a program that's supposed to make Windows easier to use. Until a Bob helper is born, you…

— Josh Quittner

Microsoft's Windows 3.1, released in 1992, was the first truly successful edition of Windows and juiced the Redmond juggernaut. Apple's Macintosh System…

— Walt Mossberg

They don't make poles long enough for me want to touch Microsoft products, and I don't want any mass-marketed game-playing device or…

— Erik Naggum

Apple isn't the next Microsoft, you see. Apple is not the next anything because the role it aspires to transcends anything imaginable…

— Robert X. Cringely

So just to be clear, Microsoft has created a new operating system that isn't properly compatible with a best-selling, still perfectly useable…

— Robert Peston

Gates has always understood Moore's Law better than anyone else in the industry. If you can make something run at all, get…

— Jerry Pournelle

UNIX has a philosophy, it has 25 years of history behind it, and most importantly, it has a clean core. It strives…

— Linus Torvalds

When I worked at Microsoft, I got to go and visit a bunch of different companies. Probably a hundred different companies a…

— Gabe Newell

I remember back in the early days of Microsoft that from the day that you decided that you were just going to…

— Gabe Newell

Microsoft has had many, many successful products. I'm committed to one company. This is the industry I've decided to work in.

— Bill Gates

I reckon that Stonehege was build by the contemporary equivalent of Microsoft, whereas Avebury was definitely an Apple circle.

— Terry Pratchett

Seattle was hardly a tech magnet before Amazon, Microsoft, and then a host of once-fledgling technology firms set up operations there.

— James B. Stewart

The unique value that Microsoft can add is around productivity and platforms. Productivity is broadly something we can uniquely do.

— Satya Nadella

Microsoft is the productivity and platform company for the mobile-first and cloud-first world.

— Satya Nadella

As an investor in small companies, I don't care how rich Microsoft is. I care about what my opportunities are.

— Esther Dyson

I think belief is like having the first Microsoft Windows - it's so rudimentary, in the human brainwork, it's so obviously a…

— Rupert Everett

As you know, Microsoft eventually kind of grabbed the gold ring out of Apple's hands, I guess.

— Andy Hertzfeld

There's more at risk in what happens in Microsoft than I could ever bet on a poker table.

— David Einhorn

Intel's a great company, and Microsoft is a great company. Everybody seems to do a lot better when there is competition.

— Ted Waitt

It's Microsoft versus mankind, with Microsoft having only a slight lead.

— Larry Ellison

If Microsoft is the new IBM, Google is the new Microsoft - the defining company of the industry.

— Mitchell Kapor

My question is what non-Microsoft browsers were you concerned about in January of 1996.

— David Boies

Microsoft makes numerous apps for both Android and iOS, as do Google, Amazon and Facebook. You can run iTunes and iCloud on…

— Walt Mossberg

If you do any thorough, apples-to-apples, objective comparison of AWS versus Microsoft, you don't come out deciding that they're comparable platforms.

— Andy Jassy

The best way to prepare [to be a programmer] is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have…

— Bill Gates