Microsoft Quotes · Page 5

Take our 20 best people away, and I will tell you that Microsoft will become an unimportant company

— Bill Gates

Microsoft is no longer thought of as the company where the smartest people want to work.

— Stephen Manes

If Microsoft had never existed... The industry would probably be very fragmented.

— Paul Allen

The hugely popular Windows 95 operating system revolutionized the software world thanks to its capability of accomplishing the seemingly impossible task of…

— Dave Barry

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

— Jack Ma

I have my own theory about why decline happens at companies like IBM or Microsoft. The company does a great job, innovates…

— Walter Isaacson

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

— Terry Pratchett

Coming from Google, you don't exactly spend a lot of time at Microsoft.

— Sheryl Sandberg

In the early '80s, I happened to find myself in the vicinity of people who would work for Microsoft five years later.

— William Gibson

The older I get, the more I see how much motivations matter. The Zune was crappy because the people at Microsoft don’t…

— Walter Isaacson

I just did an ad with Microsoft. I'm dressed as Napoleon, and I get to slap Bill Gates.

— Jon Heder

The thing about HD-DVD that is attractive to Microsoft is that it's very pro-consumer in letting you copy all movies up onto…

— Bill Gates

Microsoft is one of those rare companies to have truly revolutionized the world through technology, and I couldn't be more honored to…

— Satya Nadella

I don't try to be a threat to MicroSoft, mainly because I don't really see MS as competition. Especially not Windows-the goals…

— Linus Torvalds

Perhaps the most damaging aspect of the Obamacare tech nightmare is how wholly predictable it all was. Anyone who has been involved…

— Tina Brown

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

— David Einhorn

Every business tries to turn this year's success into next year's greater success. It's hard for me to see why Microsoft is…

— Charlie Munger

New video gaming systems are coming out that track every joint of your body. It's basically going to become a normal thing…

— Jesse Schell

Facebook collects a lot of data from people and admits it. And it also collects data which isn't admitted. And Google does…

— Richard Stallman

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

— Larry Ellison

[Bill Gates] wanted me to stay working at Microsoft, but I didn't think he could be CEO and we could have the…

— Melinda Gates

We had planned to integrate a Web browser with our operating system as far back as 1993( filing its first court responses…

— Bill Gates

I view Linux as something that's not Microsoft - a backlash against Microsoft, no more and no less.

— Ken Thompson

My career at Microsoft really was getting in the way of my cooking.

— Nathan Myhrvold

Microsoft is in a lot of the same businesses that Google is in.

— Jeff Dean