Microsoft Quotes: Inspiring Insights and Thoughts

"Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems"

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

Ralph Nader, Lawyer

"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"

Tim O'Reilly

"Microsoft is not about greed. It's about innovation and fairness"

Bill Gates, Businessman

"At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top - I'm afraid that's not quite right"

Bill Gates, Businessman

"Microsoft has had two goals in the last 10 years. One was to copy the Mac, and the other was to copy Lotus' success in the spreadsheet - basically, the applications business. And over the course of the last 10 years, Microsoft accomplished both of those goals. And now they are completely lost"

Steve Jobs, Businessman

"With our technology, with objects, literally three people in a garage can blow away what 200 people at Microsoft can do. Literally can blow it away. Corporate America has a need that is so huge and can save them so much money, or make them so much money, or cost them so much money if they miss it, that they are going to fuel the object revolution"

Steve Jobs, Businessman

"Bill Gates has always been a mentor and inspiration for me even before I knew him. Just growing up, I admired how Microsoft was mission-focused"

Mark Zuckerberg, Businessman

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

Mark Zuckerberg, Businessman

"I think it would be absolutely reckless and irresponsible for anyone to try and break up Microsoft"

Steve Ballmer, Businessman

"If Microsoft ever does applications for Linux it means I've won"

Linus Torvalds, Businessman

"I don't try to be a threat to MicroSoft, mainly because I don't really see MS as competition. Especially not Windows-the goals of Linux and Windows are simply so different"

Linus Torvalds, Businessman

"Well Microsoft really does develop some really interesting technology"

Miguel de Icaza, Scientist

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

Larry Ellison, Businessman

"Not to go too far, but Microsoft is probably used by most people out there"

Miguel de Icaza, Scientist

"I'm just an observer of Java, and where Microsoft wants to go with C# is too early to tell"

Dennis Ritchie, Scientist

"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, Economist

"I have spoken to a whole group of millionaires, head executives at Microsoft. Boy did I chew those guys out"

Jack LaLanne, Athlete

"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"

John W. Thompson, Businessman

"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"

John W. Thompson, Businessman

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

Jim Cramer, Businessman

"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

"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"

John W. Thompson, Businessman

"Google, Microsoft and Yahoo should be developing new technologies to bypass government sensors and barriers to the Internet; but instead, they agreed to guard the gates themselves"

Tom Lantos, Diplomat

"I always say that my favorite game was Original Adventure, published by both Microsoft and Apple Computer back in 1980"

Roberta Williams, Designer

"Bill Gates finds people in Russia to hire them to Microsoft. That's the Russian interest in this process"

Anatoly Chubais, Politician

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

Bruce Scheneier

"I just did an ad with Microsoft. I'm dressed as Napoleon, and I get to slap Bill Gates"

Jon Heder, Actor

"Because Microsoft seems to sometimes not trust customer choice, they salt XP with all these little gizmos and trap doors to get people to try Microsoft stuff. But the reality is that we're downloading more players than we ever have on a worldwide basis"

Rob Glaser, Businessman

"The Microsoft actions announced today are exactly the kinds of industry initiatives we need. Microsoft is using its resources to bring real privacy protection to Internet users by creating incentives for more websites to provide strong privacy protection"

William M. Daley, Politician

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

Orrin Hatch, Politician

"Microsoft has a monopoly over the desktop operating systems"

Stewart Alsop, Writer

"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, Businessman

"So, what you can do in Microsoft Word is what Bill Gates has decided. What you can do in Oracle Database is what Larry Ellison and his crew have decided"

Ted Nelson, Author

"As you know, Microsoft eventually kind of grabbed the gold ring out of Apple's hands, I guess"

Andy Hertzfeld, Inventor