Best Microsoft Quotes

I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.

I can’t say that I like MicroSoft: I think they make rather bad operating systems – Windows NT is just more of the same – but while I dislike their operating systems and abhor their tactics in the marketplace I at the same time don’t really care all that much about them.

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

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

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

To be a nemesis, you have to actively try to destroy something, don’t you? Really, I’m not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely unintentional side effect.

In my opinion MS is a lot better at making money than it is at making good operating systems.

I’m interested in Linux because of the technology, and Linux wasn’t started as any kind of rebellion against the ‘evil Microsoft empire.’

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

I’m simply too content doing what I want to do to really have a very negative attitude towards MicroSoft. They make bad products – so what? I don’t need to care, because I happily don’t have to use them, and writing my own alternative has been a very gratifying experience in many ways.

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.

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.

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

You can’t please everybody, Microsoft. So stop trying.

While I was at Microsoft, the annual revenues grew larger than the GDP of the Republic of Ghana.

It’s quite an unfair thought that Microsoft are trying to control our gaming, they’re trying to force us to be online all the time. [People] didn’t really think that through.

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.

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

Unlike the phone system, the Internet has no Ma Bell or FCC to mandate new policies for the entire system. Not even Microsoft can make us all upgrade our routers. I think.

For the most part, the best opportunities now lie where your competitors have yet to establish themselves, not where they’re already entrenched. Microsoft is struggling to adapt to that new reality.

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

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

Microsoft is engaging in unlawful predatory practices that go well beyond the scope of fair competition.

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.

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.

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.

Microsoft, Apple, Facebook all bought huge patent portfolios to further their strategic game. They’re doing what I’m doing!

My career at Microsoft really was getting in the way of my cooking.

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

Mac OS is just as vulnerable as Microsoft Windows

It’s Microsoft versus mankind, with Microsoft having only a slight lead.

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

Microsoft has a new version out, Windows XP, which according to everybody is the ‘most reliable Windows ever.’ To me, this is like saying that asparagus is ‘the most articulate vegetable ever.’

A couple of years ago this guy called Ken Brown wrote a book saying that Linus stole Linux from me It later came out that Microsoft had paid him to do this

For the last 15 years, Microsoft’s master business plan seems to have been, Wait until somebody else has a hit. Then copy it.