Microsoft Quotes

• I failed in some subjects in exam, but my friend passed in all. Now he is an engineer in Microsoft and I am the owner of Microsoft.

  Bill Gates

  Ironic, Exam, Owners

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• Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems.

  Linus Torvalds

  Technology, Evil, Linux

  Linus Torvalds‏ @Linus__Torvalds, twitter.com. January 29, 2013.

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• Microsoft is not about greed. It's about innovation and fairness.

  Bill Gates

  Money, Business, Greed

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• I think it would be absolutely reckless and irresponsible for anyone to try and break up Microsoft.

  Steve Ballmer

  Break Up, Thinking, Trying

  "DOJ Case: Your Voice Counts!". Freedom to Innovate Network Newsletter, January 17, 2000.

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• It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

  Bill Gates

  Inspirational, Success, Motivation

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There is a fantasy in Redmond that Microsoft products are innovative, but this is based entirely on a peculiar confusion of the words "innovative" and "successful." Microsoft products are successful - they make a lot of money - but that doesn't make them innovative, or even particularly good.

  Robert X. Cringely

  Successful, Confusion, Peculiar

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• What we've gone through in the last several years has caused some people to question 'Can we trust Microsoft?' .

  Steve Ballmer

  Business, Years, People

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• If Microsoft ever does applications for Linux it means I've won.

  Linus Torvalds

  Mean, Linux, Doe

  "Why Intel and Netscape bought into Linux" by David Needle, edition.cnn.com. October 1, 1998.

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• There's an entire flight simulator hidden in every copy of Microsoft Excel 97.

  Bruce Schneier

  Excellence, Flight, Copies

  Bruce Schneier (2011). “Secrets and Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World”, p.333, John Wiley & Sons

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

  Jon Heder

  Bills, Slap, Gates

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• Not to go too far, but Microsoft is probably used by most people out there

  Miguel de Icaza

  People, Used

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• I thought Microsoft did a lot of things that were good and right building parts of the browser into the operating system. Then I thought it out and came up with reasons why it was a monopoly

  Steve Wozniak

  Reason Why, Building, Economy

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• How could this Y2K be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?

  Al Gore

  Country, Problem

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• The fact is... our doors have not exactly been knocked down by companies willing to defend Microsofts business practices.

  Orrin Hatch

  Doors, Practice, Facts

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• 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 Windows are simply so different.

  Linus Torvalds

  Goal, Competition, Trying

  "The Pragmatist of Free Software: Linus Torvalds Interview". Interview with Hiroo Yamagata, www.tlug.jp. September 30, 1997.

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• Over the near term there is clearly the opportunity to work with Microsoft to do to a better job of creating a more secure Windows experience for users around the world.

  John W. Thompson

  Jobs, Opportunity, Creating

  "Interview: Symantec's John Thompson talks about big picture security". Interview with Ed Scannell, www.infoworld.com. June 16, 2004.

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• John D. Rockefeller wanted to dominate oil, but Microsoft wants it all, you name it: cable, media, banking, car dealerships.

  Ralph Nader

  Media, Names, Oil

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• I have spoken to a whole group of millionaires, head executives at Microsoft. Boy did I chew those guys out.

  Jack LaLanne

  Sports, Boys, Guy

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• I'm just an observer of Java, and where Microsoft wants to go with C# is too early to tell.

  Dennis Ritchie

  Java, Want, Observers

  "The future according to Dennis Ritchie". Interview with Danny Kalev, www.itworld.com. December 20, 2000.

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• Google, Microsoft and Yahoo should be developing new technologies to bypass government sensors and barriers to the Internet; but instead, they agreed to guard the gates themselves.

  Tom Lantos

  Technology, Government, Google

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• I always say that my favorite game was Original Adventure, published by both Microsoft and Apple Computer back in 1980.

  Roberta Williams

  Travel, Adventure, Games

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• Well Microsoft really does develop some really interesting technology.

  Miguel de Icaza

  Technology, Interesting, Doe

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• Sometimes we do get taken by surprise. For example, when the Internet came along, we had it as a fifth or sixth priority.

  Bill Gates

  Taken, Priorities, Example

  Bill Gates' Speech at the University of Washington, archive.fortune.com. July 20, 1998.

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• We have no intention of shipping another bloated OS and shoving it down the throats of our users.

  Paul Maritz

  Shipping, Intention, Throat

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• The best way to prepare [to be a programmer] is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have written. In my case, I went to the garbage cans at the Computer Science Center and I fished out listings of their operating systems.

  Bill Gates

  Success, Leadership, Work

  Interview with Suzanne Lammers, programmersatwork.wordpress.com. 1986.

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