Quotes and Sayings about Microsoft

Microsoft is in a very unique position to be able to go spend Sony out of business. Sony is really the only other player who could compete with Game Pass and we have a 2 year and 10 million subs lead.

Microsoft is in a lot of the same businesses that Google is in.

Because it's everybody's business.

Hi, my name is Bill Gates and I'll teach you how to count to ten:
1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 95, 98, ME, 2000, XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10

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

John D. Rockefeller wanted to dominate oil, but Microsoft wants it all, you name it: cable, media, banking, car dealerships.

You can make something big when young that will carry you through life. Look at all the big startups like Microsoft, Apple, Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc. They were all started by very young people who stumbled on something of unseen value. You'll know it when you hit a home run.

Facebook is in a very different place than Apple, Google, Amazon, Samsung, and Microsoft. We are trying to build a community.

Microsoft has had clear competitors in the past. It's a good thing we have museums to document that.

We've truly reimagined windows.

Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches.

I think Windows 8 is a catastrophe for everyone in the PC space.

I've got an update; want me to restart now or wait?
Too late!
You left an open file, did not save for a while
Turn off and on, oh no, and now it's gone!
Do as you dictate; your actions taught me how to hate
Primate
You return and cry, log in and wonder why
Edge won't stop appearing on your desktop

Computers may out-think us one day, but as long as people got feelings we'll be better than they are.

It was one thing to use computers as a tool, quite another to let them do your thinking for you.

Computers make excellent and efficient servants, but I have no wish to serve under them.

Supercomputers will achieve one human brain capacity by 2010, and personal computers will do so by about 2020.

Droids are not good or bad. They are neutral reflections of those who imprint them.

One of the most feared expressions in modern times is "The computer is down."

Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window.

One of my colleagues keeps typing numbers into her calculator and transfers them into an Excel sheet. I'm crying.

Optimist: The glass is 1/2 full.
Pessimist: The glass is 1/2 empty.
Excel: The glass is January 2nd.

"What do you think about Excel?"
"I hate it."
"Okay, experienced user, then."

"My word is full of little boxes!"
"That is Excel, boss."

Me: "Dear Word, I left some space on page 7 to fill it with an image now."
Word: "Seriously?! Here, I broke your document's format and put the image on page 21. Have fun!"

The secret to a beautiful and well structured Excel sheet is me never having touched it.

Me: "Excel - never again! There's nothing worse."
PowerPoint: "Hello there!"

Willow: "Have you Googled her?"
Xander: "Willow! She's seventeen!"
Willow: "It's a search engine."

Brainy: "Whoa, just what is this magic searching device?"
Patrick: "Right now, I'm using Google."

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces people into thinking they can't lose.

Capitalism has worked very well. Anyone who wants to move to North Korea is welcome.

I threw my 20th birthday party at Brown, and I didn't even have to say to anyone not to put pictures on Facebook. Not a single picture went up. That was when I knew I’d found a solid group of friends, and I felt like I belonged.

Gerald Broflovski: "Well that does it, I'm going to the police!"
Stan: "For what?"
Gerald Broflovski: "To find out where Apple is keeping my son."
Stan: "Dude, when the police want to know where somebody is, they ask Apple!"

Great companies are built on great products.

There's no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance.

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

Starfield will have the fewest bugs of any game Bethesda has ever shipped.

I am concerned in general about carbon emissions and machine learning.

Burn rubber not gasoline.

I think the fact that within the bitcoin universe an algorithm replaces the functions of the government is actually pretty cool. I am a big fan of Bitcoin.

Europe resembles a fine riverboat that was launched on a still ocean in 2000. And then the first storm that hit it, in 2008, started creating serious structural problems for it. We started leaking water. And of course, the people in the third class, as in the Titanic, start feeling the drowning effects first.

Your best teacher is your last mistake.

When the Internet first came, I thought it was just the beacon of freedom. People could communicate with anyone, anywhere, and nobody could stop it.

Sometimes all a girl really needed was a very bad idea.