Best Microsoft Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 2

“Today, we have our own concentrations of economic power. Instead of Standard Oil, U.S. Steel, the Union Pacific Railroad, and J. P. Morgan and Company, we have Amazon, Google, Apple, Facebook, and Microsoft.”

Today Company Economic Standards Unions Oil Apples Concentration Google Steel Microsoft Pacific Amazon Railroads Economic Power Standard Oil

Author:George Packer

“PowerPoint presentations, the cesspool of data visualization that Microsoft has visited upon the earth. PowerPoint, indeed, is a cautionary tale in our emerging data literacy. It shows that tools matter: Good ones help us think well and bad ones do the opposite. Ever since it was first released in 1990, PowerPoint has become an omnipresent tool for showing charts and info during corporate presentations.”

Source: Smarter Than You Think: How Technology Is Changing Our Minds for the Better

“Whether advanced driver training helps drivers in the long term is one of those controversial and unresolved mysteries of the road, but my eye-opening experience at Bondurant raises the curious idea that we buy cars—for most people one of the most costly things they will ever own—with an underdeveloped sense of how to use them. This is true for many things, arguably, but not knowing what the F9 key does in Microsoft Word is less life-threatening than not knowing how to properly operate antilock brakes.”

“Microsoft shoots for the moon. Sony shoots for the sun.”

Sun Moon Microsoft Sony Shoot For The Moon

Author:Ken Kutaragi

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

“At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top - I'm afraid that's not quite right.”

Ideas Inspiring Money Business Computer Brilliant Microsoft Brilliant Ideas

Author:Bill Gates

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

Money Business Computer Innovation Greed Materialism Fairness Microsoft

Author:Bill Gates

“There are people who don't like capitalism, and people who don't like PCs. But there's no-one who likes the PC who doesn't like Microsoft.”

People Inspirational Funny Computer Capitalism Likes Microsoft

Author:Bill Gates

“It wasn't that Microsoft was so brilliant or clever in copying the Mac, it's that the Mac was a sitting duck for 10 years. That's Apple's problem: Their differentiation evaporated.”

Years Problem Sitting Brilliant Clever Apples Ducks Microsoft Macs Copying Differentiation

Author:Steve Jobs

“digital hub (center of our universe) is moving from PC to cloud - PC now just another client alongside iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, ... - Apple is in danger of hanging on to old paradigm too long (innovator's dilemma) - Google and Microsoft are further along on the technology, but haven't quite figured it out yet - tie all of our products together, so we further lock customers into our ecosystem”

“I think MySpace is doomed, I give them about two more years.... I think Facebook is the next Microsoft in both the bad and the good senses. That's an amazing company that is going to do a lot of good and bad things.”

Thinking Giving Years Two Next Company Senses Bad Things Doomed Good And Bad Microsoft Good Sense

Author:Jimmy Wales

“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.”

Source: Content: Selected Essays on Technology, Creativity, Copyright, and the Future of the Future

“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.”

People Want Long Enough Games Sound Hours Products Mass Window Boxes Devices Users Desks Impress Microsoft Interfaces Appliances Novices Uninterested User Interface

Author:Erik Naggum

“The earnings have been pretty good so far, but there's an ambiguity in the market about them, because you'll see Amazon or Microsoft disappointing and then others beating.”

Has Beens Earning Ambiguity Microsoft Disappointing Amazon

Author:Hugh S. Johnson

“Remember, just because Microsoft can do something, doesn't mean you can. Microsoft makes their own gravity. Normal rules don't apply to them.”

Mean Remember Can Do Normal Gravity Microsoft Can Do Something

Book:Joel on Software

Source: Joel on Software

“I may make jokes about Microsoft at times, but at the same time, I think the Microsoft hatred is a disease.”

Thinking May Disease Jokes Hatred Microsoft

Author:Linus Torvalds

“Within the decade, Microsoft should have a minimum of 300 stores. They should do as well as the Apple Stores... [Microsoft] is going to experiment with holiday pop-up shops this year in various cities. I predict they will be hugely successful.”

Should Years Wells Cities Successful Should Have Various Pops Decades Stores Experiments Apples Shops Holiday Minimum Microsoft

Author:John C. Dvorak

“If Apple has a flaw, it's the inability of the company to crush competition using the kind of aggressive tactics that companies like Microsoft and Intel have always applied.”

Ifs Kind Company Competition Apples Crush Flaws Aggressive Inability Tactics Microsoft

Author:John C. Dvorak

“The real threat to Linux adoption is Apple, not Microsoft. If you didn't know, now you know.”

Ifs Knows Real Threat Apples Adoption Microsoft Linux

Author:Ryan C. Gordon

“Microsoft unapologetically will make sure ActiveX works best on Windows”

Window Microsoft

Author:Bob Muglia

“Microsoft and Dell have been building, implementing and operating massive cloud operations for years. Now we are extending our longstanding partnership to help usher in the new era of cloud computing, by giving customers and partners the ability to deploy the Windows Azure platform in their own datacenters.”

“In the summer of 1988, I received an interesting call from Bill Gates at Microsoft. He asked whether I'd like to come over and talk about building a new operating system at Microsoft for personal computers. What Bill had to offer was the opportunity to build another operating system, one that was portable.”

Opportunity Interesting Building Offers Computer Summer Bills Gates Microsoft Operating Systems Personal Computers

Author:Dave Cutler

“I never sensed really bad blood between Microsoft and Apple. A lot of Macintosh users feel badly about PCs and do have some bad feelings. I call them Macintosh bigots a little. They say, oh, no, only the Macintosh is the good one, and I don't like to be that way.”

Way Feels Littles Feelings Blood Apples Users Microsoft Bigots Macintosh Bad Blood

Author:Steve Wozniak

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

Country Problem Microsoft

Author:Al Gore

“People can criticize Microsoft for supporting this TV thing for the past eight years, but it is a long-term bet, There is not any other software business that is as dedicated to the vision of the TV and the PDA [personal digital assistant] as we are.”

People Years Long Past Term Vision Tvs Eight Long Term Digital Criticize Software Dedicated Microsoft Assistants Pda

Author:Bill Gates

“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.”

Ifs Way Should Years Long Months Six Responsible Details Release Flaws Six Months Microsoft Researchers Disclosure Guidelines Vendors

Author:Bill Vaughan

“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.”

Thinking Way Feels Believe Race Behinds Resources Labor Starting Naive Microsoft Fractions Linux Unix

Author:Kenneth P. Thompson

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

World Firsts Company Clouds Productivity Platforms Mobile Microsoft

Author:Satya Nadella

“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.”

Together Winning Successful Design Building Products Marketing Awards Software Engineering Partnership Manufacturing Microsoft Software Engineering Award Winning Nokia

Author:Stephen Elop

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

Facts Company Practice Doors Willing Microsoft Knocked Down

Author:Orrin Hatch

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

Giving Dies Share Charity Microsoft

Author:Steve Ballmer

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

Has Beens Seems Action Company Microsoft Ibm Antitrust

Author:Stephen Manes

“Microsoft is no longer thought of as the company where the smartest people want to work.”

People Want Company Microsoft

Author:Stephen Manes

“Microsoft is already the most powerful company on earth but you ain't seen nothing yet.”

Inspirational Earth Powerful Company Most Powerful Microsoft

Author:Larry Ellison

“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.”

Ifs Inspirational Ends Pieces Window Innovation Copies Software Innovative Microsoft

Author:Larry Ellison

“Microsoft is a big intellectual roach motel. All the big minds go in, and they don't come out.”

Mind Bigs Intellectual Microsoft Roaches Motels

Author:Paul Saffo

“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.”

Ifs Stills Body Bigs Three Sound Heard Television Brother Normal Cameras Track Your Body Video Coming Out Joints Scenarios Microsoft Gaming Normal Things

Author:Jesse Schell

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

People Company Microsoft Unimportant

Author:Bill Gates

“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.”

People Thinking Keys Involved Capable Standards Setting Settings Microsoft

Author:Bill Gates

“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.”

People Ifs Should Stills Would Be Fall Easy Behinds Company Bases Speed Guides Corporations Pushing Mediocre Microsoft Great People Hiring Latent

Author:Bill Gates

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

Company Successful Products Industry Decided Committed Microsoft

Author:Bill Gates

“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.”

Ifs Stills States America United Accepting United States Civilization Europe West Western Refuse Versions Hopeless Crash Doomed Microsoft Freeze Macs Western Civilization Updates

Author:Niall Ferguson

“A zero-day exploit is a method of hacking a system. It's sort of a vulnerability that has an exploit written for it, sort of a key and a lock that go together to a given software package. It could be an internet web server. It could be Microsoft Office. It could be Adobe Reader or it could be Facebook.”

Together Given Written Keys Reader Internet Office Method Vulnerability Zero Software Locks Packages Exploits Microsoft Hacking Server

Author:Edward Snowden

“Microsoft looks at new ideas, they don't evaluate whether the idea will move the industry forward, they ask, 'how will it help us sell more copies of Windows?”

Looks Ideas Helping Moving Asks Industry Window Sells Copies New Ideas Microsoft Evaluate

Author:Bill Gates

“There was nothing in the deal with Justice that would change Microsoft's business practices in any way.”

Way Justice Deals Practice Microsoft

Author:Tom Reilly

“Microsoft is still not a black belt.”

Stills Black Belts Microsoft Black Belt

Author:Ken Kutaragi

“Actual evil probably requires much more creativity, passion, and political ideology than anyone at or near the top of Microsoft seems to possess.”

Seems Political Passion Evil Creativity Computer Ideology Microsoft Political Ideology

Author:Jon Katz

“Modern cyberspace is a deadly festering swamp, teeming with dangerous programs such as 'viruses,' 'worms,' 'Trojan horses' and 'licensed Microsoft software' that can take over your computer and render it useless.”

Humor Funny Modern Dangerous Computer Program Horse Useless Over You Software Worms Viruses Microsoft Swamps Cyberspace Trojans Trojan Horse Festering

Author:Dave Barry

“I watched as an extremely nerdy exhibitor - I'm talking about a guy who makes Bill Gates look like Brad Pitt.”

Looks Humor Funny Guy Talking Bills Gates Microsoft Brad Nerdy

Book:Dave Barry in Cyberspace

Source: Dave Barry in Cyberspace

“I bought Windows 2.0, Windows 3.0, Windows 3.1415926, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows RSVP, The Best of Windows, Windows Strikes Back, Windows Does Dallas, and Windows Let's All Buy Bill Gates a House the Size of Vermont.”

Doe Humor Funny House Window Bills Size Strikes Gates Microsoft Dallas Vermont Strike Back

Book:Boogers Are My Beat: More Lies, but Some Actual Journalism

Source: Boogers Are My Beat: More Lies, but Some Actual Journalism

Microsoft Quotes

Related topics

Microsoft Quotes