Boat Quote by Clayton Christensen

An awful lot of successful technology companies ended up being in a slightly different market than they started out in. Microsoft started with programming…

— Marc Andreessen

I know Microsoft, I know they were only doing things because they thought they were long-reaching and long-thinking. But the world we live in…

— Peter Molyneux

...heavy investments in information technology have delivered disappointing results - largely because companies tend to use technology to mechanize old ways of doing business...Instead…

— Michael Martin Hammer

It's like when IBM drove a lot of innovation out of the computer industry before the microprocessor came along. Eventually, Microsoft will crumble because…

— Steve Jobs

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

— Paul Allen

Look at the computer industry. I've watched a lot of companies come and go, some that were right at the pinnacle of their success.

— Edwin Catmull

Microsoft has some assets like Office that have stayed strong and there's so much room for innovation in those.

— Bill Gates

Many companies aspire to change the world. But very few have all the elements required: talent, resources and perseverance. Microsoft has proven that it…

— Satya Nadella

Corporations have been killing the risk-taking and exploration that makes software great. They have tried to rip the soul out of development.

— Brian Behlendorf

Proprietary software grew up, starting really in the 1980s, as an alternative and that became the dominant model with the rise of companies like…

— Tim O'Reilly

My first company, Pure Software, was exciting and innovative in the first few years and bureaucratic and painful in the last few before it…

— Reed Hastings

When Paul Allen and I started Microsoft over 30 years ago, we had big dreams about software. We had dreams about the impact it…

— Bill Gates