Robert X. Cringely

The companies that can afford to do basic research (and can't afford not to) are ones that dominate their markets. ... It's…

— Robert X. Cringely

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

Hewlett Packard at one point had only three private offices. One belonged to Hewlett, one to Packard, and the third to a…

— Robert X. Cringely

What you have to watch out for are the theories that claim to be infallible. Because the only way their believers can…

— Robert X. Cringely

There is a fantasy in Redmond that Microsoft products are innovative, but this is based entirely on a peculiar confusion of the…

— Robert X. Cringely

Apple and Google will compete like crazy for our data because once they have it we'll be their customers forever.

— Robert X. Cringely

“In 1979, for example, Microsoft gave Boeing Commercial Airplane Co. the right to buy any Microsoft product for $50 per copy, until…

— Robert X. Cringely

The simple rule about weapons is that if thery can be built, they will be built.

— Robert X. Cringely

“There are lots of people who aren't going to like this book, whether they are into morals or not. I figure there…

— Robert X. Cringely

For every hour of brains, you will be charged three hours. The other two hours go to management and project management, which…

— Robert X. Cringely

If you ask someone whether our Constitutional rights are being flushed down the porcelain oubliette, and their response is, "If I answer…

— Robert X. Cringely

More proof that trusting the Feds to protect our information is like hiring Homer Simpson to guard the donuts.

— Robert X. Cringely

“There is an enormous difference between starting a company and running one. Thinking up great ideas, which requires mainly intelligence and knowledge,…

— Robert X. Cringely