Microsoft Quotes - page 5

America glories in its tradition of the self-made individual. Political candidates compete to be a friend to entrepreneurs, and policymakers, imagining the next Microsoft or Google, design laws to back the innovator in the garage. (Mark McKinnon)
It became clear to me by 1984 that Microsoft was likely going to be the big winner in the PC software apps and operating system category, partly because of the dynamics of owning and controlling the operating system: that gave you enormous power, and I came to see Bill Gates was fierce competitor. View quote
Mitch Kapor
My career at Microsoft really was getting in the way of my cooking. View quote
Nathan Myhrvold
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 copy from subscribers, $1.25 at the newsstand and a whopping $5 per copy from ads. The ad revenue let them run a far bigger newsroom than subscribers were paying for. View quote
Nathan Myhrvold
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 destiny. View quote
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 necessary changes, and repeatedly introduced new versions of the software. View quote
Naveen Jain
I always say that my favorite game was Original Adventure, published by both Microsoft and Apple Computer back in 1980. View quote
Roberta Williams
Most people know that there is this partnership between Yahoo and Microsoft on search. View quote
Ross Levinsohn
Microsoft has a monopoly over the desktop operating systems. View quote
Stewart Alsop
Microsoft is committed to the ubiquity of the Skype experience - communication across every device and every platform will remain a primary focus. View quote
Tony Bates
There are some things that money can't buy: peace of mind, for starters, and lean muscle mass. Neither the Queen of England nor the founder of Microsoft can put in an order for either one. (Victoria Moran)
The Microsoft actions announced today are exactly the kinds of industry initiatives we need. Microsoft is using its resources to bring real privacy protection to Internet users by creating incentives for more websites to provide strong privacy protection. View quote
William M. Daley
In the Mac vs. PC ads, Apple bills itself as the antidote to Microsoft. To love Apple wasn't to sell out. It was to buy in. Most people use PCs, but Apple has the mindshare. View quote
Wesley Morris
When you think about the guys who started Twitter, and the Google guys, and the Facebook guys and the Napster guys, and the Microsoft guys, and the Dell guys and the Instagram guys, it's all guys. The girls, they're being left behind. View quote
will.i.am
If Alibaba cannot become a Microsoft or Walmart, I will regret it for the rest of my life. View quote
Jack Ma
Microsoft must be testing the outer limits of what a customer will put up with before bolting to Linux, certainly a valuable scientific study from my point of view. View quote
Pamela Jones
[...] the only thing I'd rather own than [Microsoft] Windows is English or Chinese or Spanish, because then I could charge a $249 right to speak English. And I could charge you an upgrade fee when I add new letters like N and T. View quote
Scott McNealy
I have spoken to a whole group of millionaires, head executives at Microsoft. Boy did I chew those guys out. View quote
Jack LaLanne
One of the ways that Microsoft beat Apple way back in the day was that they were a lot more open; today, in the world I come from, the free software and open-source world, Microsoft is not generally viewed as open; they're viewed as proprietary. View quote
Jimmy Wales
I loved every minute of my time at Microsoft, but I had always envisioned having another phase of life just because I thought that would be interesting. It had never been my plan to work until I literally didn't want to do anything and then hang it up. View quote
Steve Ballmer
Throughout our history, Microsoft has won by making big, bold bets. I believe that now is not the time to scale back the scope of our ambition or the scale of our investment. While our opportunities are greater than ever, we also face new competitors, faster-moving markets and new customer demands. (Steve Ballmer)
Our goal in making these changes is to enable Microsoft to achieve greater agility in managing the incredible growth ahead and executing our software-based services strategy. View quote
Steve Ballmer
At Microsoft, we're investing heavily in security because we want customers to be able to trust their computing experiences, so they can realize the full benefits of the interconnected world we live in. View quote
Steve Ballmer
Microsoft is not the problem. Microsoft is the symptom. View quote
Eric S. Raymond
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 the spreadsheet - basically, the applications business. And over the course of the last 10 years, Microsoft accomplished both of those goals. And now they are completely lost. View quote
Steve Jobs