Microsoft Quotes

223 quotes by 130 authors

I worked for Microsoft until 1996, till I had a different angle to view life. I wanted to be an entrepreneur and control my own… — Naveen Jain
Early versions of Microsoft Word left a lot to be desired. However, to the company's credit, it quickly learned where Word fell short, made the… — Naveen Jain
Microsoft has had two goals in the last 10 years. One was to copy the Mac, and the other was to copy Lotus' success in… — Steve Jobs
The desktop computer industry is dead. Innovation has virtually ceased. Microsoft dominates with very little innovation. That's over. Apple lost. The desktop market has entered… — Steve Jobs
With our technology, with objects, literally three people in a garage can blow away what 200 people at Microsoft can do. Literally can blow it… — Steve Jobs
Oracle, for example, has even hired people to dumpster dive for information about its competitor, Microsoft. It's not even illegal, because trash isn't covered by… — Kevin Mitnick
In market research I did at Microsoft Corp. in the early 1990s, I estimated that the 'Wall Street Journal' took in about 75 cents per… — Nathan Myhrvold
Microsoft, Apple, Facebook all bought huge patent portfolios to further their strategic game. They're doing what I'm doing! — Nathan Myhrvold
My career at Microsoft really was getting in the way of my cooking. — Nathan Myhrvold
John D. Rockefeller wanted to dominate oil, but Microsoft wants it all, you name it: cable, media, banking, car dealerships. — Ralph Nader
So, what you can do in Microsoft Word is what Bill Gates has decided. What you can do in Oracle Database is what Larry Ellison… — Ted Nelson
When I heard about the Microsoft Kinect, though, I felt an urgency rising in me. A game you played without touching any machinery? A chance… — Susan Orlean
When time permits, I try to see interesting people in the cities I visit. In Seattle, I met Paul Allen, the co-founder of Microsoft, who… — Steven Pinker
The antitrust litigation currently in the federal courts in the U.S. against Monsanto will be the test case in the life sciences, just as the… — Jeremy Rifkin
I'm just an observer of Java, and where Microsoft wants to go with C# is too early to tell. — Dennis Ritchie
If Microsoft ever does applications for Linux it means I've won. — Linus Torvalds
Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems. — Linus Torvalds
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 of Linux and… — Linus Torvalds
I'm interested in Linux because of the technology, and Linux wasn't started as any kind of rebellion against the 'evil Microsoft empire.' — Linus Torvalds
To be a nemesis, you have to actively try to destroy something, don't you? Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be… — Linus Torvalds

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