Microsoft Quotes - Page 11

• You can't please everybody, Microsoft. So stop trying.

  Paul Thurrott

  Trying, Stop Trying, Please

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• My question is what non-Microsoft browsers were you concerned about in January of 1996.

  David Boies

  January, Concerned, Browsers

  "Gates Gives More Lip On Tape". www.wired.com. November 16, 1998.

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• 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.

  Steve Ballmer

  Interesting, Would Be, Phases

  "Steve Ballmer talks about the current state of Microsoft, his Twitter investment, and how sports tech can help the Clippers". Interview with Matt Rosoff, www.businessinsider.com. February 6, 2016.

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• Microsoft doesn't have to make back the purchase price. They have to make something of Skype, not from Skype. If they fail to grow as a company, I'm going to conclude that Microsoft has officially and deliberately taken themselves off the list of "A list innovators."

  Andy Ihnatko

  Taken, Skype, Lists

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• From the day Microsoft was started, the only constraint to our growth has been attracting ah, more great programmers, very smart, committed, ah, people. And so we're always on... on the look for ah, that kind of person.

  Bill Gates

  Smart, People, Growth

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• I sent one e-mail in my life. I sent it to Jeff Raikes at Microsoft, and it ended up in court in Minneapolis, so I am one for one.

  Warren Buffett

  Mail, Minneapolis, Court

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• So just to be clear, Microsoft has created a new operating system that isn't properly compatible with a best-selling, still perfectly useable version of its own software. Which of course provides quite a powerful incentive for me to spend up to £99.99 on upgrading to Microsoft Outlook 2007 - except that in my current mood, I'd rather stick pins in my eyes.

  Robert Peston

  Powerful, Eye, Incentives

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• No one person controls Microsoft. The board and the shareholders decide whether they want to have me as CEO.

  Bill Gates

  Boards, Want, Ceo

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• They said these North Korean missiles had enough range to hit Seattle, but residents in Seattle were not worried. Today Bill Gates said Microsoft has enough missiles to destroy North Korea ten times over.

  Jay Leno

  Korea, Bills, Today

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• Microsoft has long hired based on IQ and "intellectual bandwidth."

  Bill Gates

  Long, Intellectual, Bandwidth

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• I'm not a lawyer I'm a kind of mouthpiece/activist type, though occasionally they shave me and stuff me into my Bar Mitzvah suit and send me to a standards body or the UN to stir up trouble. I spend about three weeks a month on the road doing completely weird stuff like going to Microsoft to talk about DRM.

  Cory Doctorow

  Body, Stuff, Months

  Cory Doctorow (2008). “Content: Selected Essays on Technology, Creativity, Copyright, and the Future of the Future”

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• Microsoft is the productivity and platform company for the mobile-first and cloud-first world.

  Satya Nadella

  Clouds, World, Firsts

  "Microsoft Needs a Real Plan, Not a Memo" by Mat Honan, www.wired.com. July 11, 2014.

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• Building on our successful partnership, we can now bring together the best of Microsoft's software engineering with the best of Nokia's product engineering, award-winning design, and global sales, marketing and manufacturing.

  Stephen Elop

  Successful, Winning, Awards

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• I’d like to own Microsoft shares until I either give something to charity or I die.

  Steve Ballmer

  Giving, Charity, Share

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• If an innovative piece of software comes along, Microsoft copies it and makes it part of Windows. This is not innovation; this is the end of innovation.

  Larry Ellison

  Inspirational, Innovation, Pieces

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• New video gaming systems are coming out that track every joint of your body. It's basically going to become a normal thing for us to allow Microsoft to put a three-dimensional camera on top of your television set looking at you, which sounds like a Big Brother scenario if ever I heard one, but, still, it's what we're going to allow.

  Jesse Schell

  Brother, Track, Normal

  "Why games will take over our lives". Interview with John D. Sutter, www.cnn.com. April 5, 2010.

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• Take our 20 best people away, and I will tell you that Microsoft will become an unimportant company

  Bill Gates

  People, Company, Unimportant

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• Microsoft is involved in setting some fairly key standards and people are afraid of it because they think, Geez, they are quite capable. It's daunting, I suppose.

  Bill Gates

  Thinking, Keys, People

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• Like IBM, the company [Microsoft] seems to have been spooked by the federal antitrust action against it and became increasingly sclerotic and less inventive.

  Stephen Manes

  Action, Ibm, Antitrust

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• If we [Microsoft Corporation] weren't still hiring great people and pushing ahead at full speed, it would be easy to fall behind and become a mediocre company. Fear should guide you, but it should be latent. I have some latent fear. I consider failure on a regular basis.

  Bill Gates

  Fall, People, Would Be

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• Microsoft has had many, many successful products. I'm committed to one company. This is the industry I've decided to work in.

  Bill Gates

  Successful, Committed, Company

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• I refuse to accept that Western civilization is like some hopeless old version of Microsoft DOS, doomed to freeze, then crash. I still cling to the hope that the United States is the Mac to Europe's PC, and that if one part of the West can successfully update and reboot itself, it's America.

  Niall Ferguson

  Civilization, America, Europe

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• I do believe that in a race, it is naive to think Linux has a hope of making a dent against Microsoft starting from way behind with a fraction of the resources and amateur labor. (I feel the same about Unix.

  Kenneth P. Thompson

  Believe, Thinking, Race

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• Microsoft obviously takes way too long to fix flaws, .. All researchers should follow responsible disclosure guidelines, but if a vendor like Microsoft takes six months to a year to fix a flaw, a researcher has every right to release the details.

  Bill Vaughan

  Years, Long, Six Months

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• They don't make poles long enough for me want to touch Microsoft products, and I don't want any mass-marketed game-playing device or Windows appliance near my desk or on my network. This is my workbench, dammit, it's not a pretty box to impress people with graphics and sounds. When I work at this system up to 12 hours a day, I'm profoundly uninterested in what user interface a novice user would prefer.

  Erik Naggum

  Games, Long, People

  Re: Why lisp failed in the marketplace (Usenet article), groups.google.com. February 16, 1997.

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