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I failed in some subjects in exam, but my friend passed in all. Now he is an engineer in Microsoft and I am the owner of Microsoft.
Bill Gates
'I was unsuccessful in certain tests, yet my companion achieved success in every one. Now he is a designer at Microsoft and I am the proprietor of Microsoft.'
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Many companies aspire to change the world. But very few have all the elements required: talent, resources and perseverance. Microsoft has proven that it has all three in abundance.
Satya Nadella
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Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems.
Linus Torvalds
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The antitrust litigation currently in the federal courts in the U.S. against Monsanto will be the test case in the life sciences, just as the Microsoft case was the test case in the information sciences.
Jeremy Rifkin
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Microsoft is the productivity and platform company for the mobile-first and cloud-first world.
Satya Nadella
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I am not topper in my university but all toppers are working in my microsoft company.
Bill Gates
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If Microsoft ever does applications for Linux it means I've won.
Linus Torvalds
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I'm just an observer of Java, and where Microsoft wants to go with C# is too early to tell.
Dennis Ritchie
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I may make jokes about Microsoft at times, but at the same time, I think the Microsoft hatred is a disease.
Linus Torvalds
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Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster. (Or, sometimes known by] Grove [the head of Intel] giveth and Gates [the head of Microsoft] taketh away.)
Niklaus Wirth
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Microsoft shoots for the moon. Sony shoots for the sun.
Ken Kutaragi
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In my opinion MS is a lot better at making money than it is at making good operating systems.
Linus Torvalds
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Microsoft has changed the way people think about computers.
Arfa Karim
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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.
Linus Torvalds
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Wesco had a market capitalization of $40 million when we bought it [in the early 1970s]. It's $2 billion now. It's been a long slog to a perfectly respectable outcome - not as good as Berkshire Hathaway or Microsoft, but there's always someone in life who's done better.
Charlie Munger
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Microsoft is unlawfully taking advantage of its Windows monopoly to protect and to extend that monopoly and undermine consumer choice.
Janet Reno
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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
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If Alibaba cannot become a Microsoft or Walmart, I will regret it for the rest of my life.
Jack Ma
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Unfortunately, people are not rebelling against Microsoft. They don't know any better.
Steve Jobs
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I am not out to destroy Microsoft, that would be a completely unintended side effect.
Linus Torvalds
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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.
Tim O'Reilly
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I've passion for software, and Microsoft provide me a true platform.
Arfa Karim
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There's an entire flight simulator hidden in every copy of Microsoft Excel 97.
Bruce Schneier
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Microsoft has long hired based on IQ and "intellectual bandwidth."
Bill Gates
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Microsoft develops a lot of software that allows people to realize their potential.
Arfa Karim
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A breakthrough in machine learning would be worth ten Microsofts.
Bill Gates
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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.
Gabe Newell
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I view Linux as something that's not Microsoft - a backlash against Microsoft, no more and no less.
Ken Thompson
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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.
Steve Jobs
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With all due respect to Microsoft and Intel, there is no substitute for being in the right place at the right time.
Andy Grove
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The Internet? We are not interested in it
Bill Gates
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Microsoft's only factory asset is the human imagination.
Bill Gates
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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.'
Dave Barry
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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.
Steve Jobs
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The fact is... our doors have not exactly been knocked down by companies willing to defend Microsofts business practices.
Orrin Hatch
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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
Steve Wozniak
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When I was in my 40s, Microsoft was my primary activity.
Bill Gates
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There is competition, .. Can any Microsoft endure future competition without innovation? The answer is no. We've got to keep changing.
Bill Gates
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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
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Take our 20 best people away, and I will tell you that Microsoft will become an unimportant company
Bill Gates
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Microsoft Products are Generally Bug Free
Bill Gates
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I think they should separate Microsoft's application group from its operating system group.
James L. Barksdale
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Government doesn't work. You work, I work, Federal Express works, Microsoft works, the Salvation Army works, Alcoholics Anonymous works, but government doesn't.
Harry Browne
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I just did an ad with Microsoft. I'm dressed as Napoleon, and I get to slap Bill Gates.
Jon Heder
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Microsoft has gotten so big that it can put out a Preview that will install itself without checking first to see if it has expired. The message here is that Microsoft's time is worth more than yours.... no start-up company could get away with being that arrogant.
Jerry Pournelle
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We had planned to integrate a Web browser with our operating system as far back as 1993( filing its first court responses to federal antitrust)
Bill Gates
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The thing about HD-DVD that is attractive to Microsoft is that it's very pro-consumer in letting you copy all movies up onto the hard disk.
Bill Gates