Bill Gates Quotes
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When your IQ rises to 28, sell.
Irwin Corey -
Microsoft technology has transformed business practices and his company has had a profound impact on the British economy.
Jack Straw -
Certainly Microsoft is going to be a big force in collaboration applications and we are working with them in that area. But in terms of real-time voice and video-based collaboration, where you have to deal with all the issues associated with a pleasant and easy experience with voice and with video, we think that takes a systems company not just a software company to do it right.
Charles Giancarlo -
The only thing I think really needs to be addressed by Microsoft is biometrics.
Jeff Cohen -
Take our 20 best people away, and I will tell you that Microsoft will become an unimportant company...
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The government is somewhat inept, but the private sector is inept in general. How many companies do venture capitalists invest in that go poorly? By far most of them. However, every once in a while a Google or a Microsoft comes out, so people keep giving them money.
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One thing I've always loved about the culture at Microsoft is there is nobody who is tougher on us, in terms of what we need to learn and do better, than the people in the company itself. You can walk down these halls, and they'll tell you, 'We need to do usability better, push this or that frontier.'
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The CEO's role in raising a company's corporate IQ is to establish an atmosphere that promotes knowledge sharing and collaboration.
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With Windows 8, Microsoft is trying to gain market share in what has been dominated by the iPad-type device. But a lot of those users are frustrated. They can't type. They can't create documents.
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Microsoft looks at new ideas, they don't evaluate whether the idea will move the industry forward, they ask, 'how will it help us sell more copies of Windows?
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I'm never fully satisfied with any Microsoft product.
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No one person controls Microsoft. The board and the shareholders decide whether they want to have me as CEO.
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I was announcing to the public, in 2006, that I'd be leaving Microsoft in a couple of years and focusing full-time on the foundation. That was the time at which we went back to New York and Warren [Buffett] announced these gifts to a number of foundations, with a very high percentage of it going to us and basically doubling our capacity.
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Microsoft has some assets like Office that have stayed strong and there's so much room for innovation in those.
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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 -
There's no overlap between Visio and Microsoft products.
Bob Muglia -
The rest of the world views the USA the way Silicon Valley views Microsoft. Except with tanks.
Brad Templeton -
I always say that my favorite game was Original Adventure, published by both Microsoft and Apple Computer back in 1980.
Roberta Williams
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Networks can typically invest tens of millions of dollars in the development of a pilot. And if they put the show on the air and it fails, that's all lost money. There's no monetization of a broken series.
Ted Sarandos -
Everyone picks the best one when given a choice.
Seth Godin -
Speech is not a means in the service of an external end. It contains its own rule of usage, ethics, and view of the world, as a gesture sometimes bears the whole truth about a man.
Maurice Merleau-Ponty -
Microsoft has long hired based on IQ and "intellectual bandwidth."
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