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“I have approximately 70 messages on Xbox Live right now and half of them are, 'I'm going to kill you' and 'I'm going to find you and destroy you' and I haven't worked (at Microsoft) in two years. Even to this day people who don't know I left Microsoft still come after me.”

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Author:Stephen Toulouse

“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.”

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Author:Wesley Morris

“If Alibaba cannot become a Microsoft or Walmart, I will regret it for the rest of my life.”

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Author:Jack Ma

“Sometimes you have to suffer a little bit in your youth to motivate yourself to succeed in later life. If Bill Gates had got laid in high school, do you think there'd be a Microsoft?”

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Author:Greg Giraldo

“While Microsoft does not share all of Oracle's ambitions for Java, we agree that it is a very valuable tool for software developers.”

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Author:Bill Gates

“All of us who attended the meeting - including Microsoft - unanimously agreed that unilaterally extending the Java programming language would hurt compatibility among Java tools and programs, would injure other tools vendors and would damage customers' ability to run a Java-based software product on whatever platform they wished.”

“I am not out to destroy Microsoft, that would be a completely unintended side effect.”

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Author:Linus Torvalds

“A breakthrough in machine learning would be worth ten Microsofts.”

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Author:Bill Gates

“Mac OS is just as vulnerable as Microsoft Windows”

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Author:Lance Ulanoff

“When burned on a CD, the human genome is smaller than Microsoft Office.”

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Author:Steve Jurvetson

“If the DHS insists, as bureaucracies are apt to do, that open-source must be certified via a sanctioned, formal process, it will interfere with the informal process of open-source itself. It seems to me the DHS is trying to turn an open-source development project into a Microsoft (or IBM or Oracle) software development project. And we know what that means: more, not fewer, errors -- security and otherwise.”

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Author:Mark Hall

“Even before I helped to co-found Microsoft, I saw a connected future . . . I called that future The Wired World.”

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Book:Idea Man: A Memoir by the Cofounder of Microsoft

Source: Idea Man: A Memoir by the Cofounder of Microsoft

“I believe there's plenty of market for each; we're talking about an ecosystem that is going to support billions of devices, so a competitive landscape is good for consumers, developers, and the platforms alike. Apple brings a smooth elegance to its devices and platform, with the best marketplace experience to boot. Google brings a higher volume of devices as well as a more diverse ecosystem to interact with. The real story here is that Microsoft is nowhere to be seen, ending a two-decade monopoly and creating biggest opportunity for software startups probably ever.”

“Entrepreneurs always pitch their idea as 'the X of Y,' so this is going to be 'the Microsoft of food.' And yet disruptive innovations usually don't have that character. Most of the time, if something seems like a good idea, it probably isn't.”

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Author:Eric Ries

“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.”

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Author:John W. Thompson

“I don't think there is any franchise more powerful than ours around securing the consumer experience and we will not concede that to anyone including Microsoft.”

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Author:John W. Thompson

“Well we have a good working relationship with Microsoft at the development level. But let's not kid ourselves, this is a company with enormous resources and talented people, and there is a certain pride that comes along with that for them and for us.”

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Author:John W. Thompson

“This is a great opportunity for Don, and I wish him success. I am incredibly proud of the work and vision culminating in Xbox One. I'm particularly excited about how Xbox pushes forward our devices and services transformation by bringing together the best of Microsoft.”

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Author:Steve Ballmer

“There are a lot of things not going well for Microsoft right now - Microsoft reorganization appears to be rearranging the chairs on the Titanic.”

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Author:Adam Hartung

“Let's say a startup is hot. It ships something great, and it achieves success. Thus, it's able to attract the best, brightest, and most talented. These people have been told they're the best since childhood. Indeed, being hired by the hot company is "proof" that they are the A and A+ players; in fact, the company is so hot that it can out-recruit Google and Microsoft.”

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Author:Guy Kawasaki

“Microsoft was not a mysterious, strange entity. You put your PC on and there's an ad for them.”

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Author:Jim Cramer

“I think belief is like having the first Microsoft Windows - it's so rudimentary, in the human brainwork, it's so obviously a sham.”

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Author:Rupert Everett

“The opportunity ahead for Microsoft is vast, but to seize it, we must focus clearly, move faster and continue to transform. A big part of my job is to accelerate our ability to bring innovative products to our customers more quickly.”

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Author:Satya Nadella

“Microsoft's only factory asset is the human imagination.”

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Author:Bill Gates

“Hostility towards Microsoft is not difficult to find on the Net, and it blends two strains: resentful people who feel Microsoft is too powerful, and disdainful people who think it's tacky. This is all strongly reminiscent of the heyday of Communism and Socialism, when the bourgeoisie were hated from both ends: by the proles, because they had all the money, and by the intelligentsia, because of their tendency to spend it on lawn ornaments. Microsoft is the very embodiment of modern high-tech prosperity - it is, in a word, bourgeois - and so it attracts all of the same gripes.”

“A NASA-funded study estimates that if the price of a ticket to space approached $100,000, close to a million people would buy one. That's a $100 billion industry. Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen gave me $20 million in startup funding to go after that market.”

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Author:Burt Rutan

“I think Microsoft will have to change. I think that the business of Microsoft, the company of Microsoft, is going to continue to succeed. But I think the business model of Microsoft is going to have to change.”

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Author:Tim O'Reilly

“I think that Microsoft will increasingly feel margin pressure from Linux as well as people saying: well actually the applications that really matter to me are not on my PC. And so they're going to be able to extract less of a monopoly rent, so to speak.”

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Author:Tim O'Reilly

“Microsoft could help Facebook with one of the biggest challenges, namely monetizing its traffic without reducing the user's experience. It's obvious that Microsoft needs traffic and Facebook needs search.”

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Author:David Einhorn

“Putting Windows [3.11] on top of DOS is like putting whipped cream on a road apple [horse poop].”

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Author:Scott McNealy

“Microsoft went into orbit because it had a booster rocket attached to it called IBM.”

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Author:Bill Gates

“True, the name of the product wasn't so great. Kindle? It was cute and sinister at the same time - worse than Edsel, or Probe, or Microsoft's Bob. But one forgives a bad name. One even comes to be fond of a bad name, if the product itself is delightful.”

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Book:The Way the World Works

Source: The Way the World Works

“Nothing gives us greater pride than the importance of India's scientific and engineering colleges, or the army of Indian scientists at organizations such as Microsoft and NASA. Our temples are not the god-encrusted shrines of Varanasi, but Western scientific institutions like Caltech and MIT, and magazines like 'Nature' and 'Scientific American.”

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Author:Aravind Adiga

“I don't really think anything Microsoft does puts pressure on Apple.”

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Author:Tim Cook

“Microsoft certainly makes products for the Macintosh.”

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Author:Melinda Gates

“In the first eight or so years at Microsoft, we were always chained to our terminals, and after I got sick the first time, I decided that I was going to be more adventurous and explore more of the world.”

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Author:Paul Allen

“It's Microsoft versus mankind, with Microsoft having only a slight lead.”

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Author:Larry Ellison

“Toyota has announced it will start integrating Microsoft technology into their vehicles. It's perfect for the person who wants a car that crashes every ten minutes.”

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Author:Conan O'Brien

“In my view, it’s irreverence, foolish confidence and naivety combined with persistence, open mindedness and a continual ability to learn that created Facebook, Google, Yahoo, eBay, Microsoft, Apple, Juniper, AOL, Sun Microsystems and others.”

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Author:Vinod Khosla

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