Microsoft Quotes - Page 2

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

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

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

I am saddened, not by Microsoft's success — I have no problem with their success. They've earned their success, for the most part. I have a problem with the fact that they just make really third-rate products.

I view Linux as something that's not Microsoft - a backlash against Microsoft, no more and no less.

I remember back in the early days of Microsoft that from the day that you decided that you were just going to put out an ad to a customer - and all you were usually able to tell them was that a new product was available - it was about nine months before you could actually reach the first customer.

A breakthrough in machine learning would be worth ten Microsofts.

Microsoft's only factory asset is the human imagination.

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.

The Internet? We are not interested in it

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

Microsoft has laid down the foundations for next-generation computing and is the founder in terms of providing user-friendly software - thereby increasing the number of novice users.

With all due respect to Microsoft and Intel, there is no substitute for being in the right place at the right time.

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

It's like when IBM drove a lot of innovation out of the computer industry before the microprocessor came along. Eventually, Microsoft will crumble because of complacency, and maybe some new things will grow. But until that happens, until there's some fundamental technology shift, it's just over.

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

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

As an investor in small companies, I don't care how rich Microsoft is. I care about what my opportunities are.

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.'

When I was in my 40s, Microsoft was my primary activity.

There is competition, .. Can any Microsoft endure future competition without innovation? The answer is no. We've got to keep changing.

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.

Linux people do what they do because they hate Microsoft.

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.

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