Quotations

You're either a friend or a foe, and you're an enemy now. /
Man ist entweder Freund oder Feind, und Sie sind jetzt ein Feind
Steve Ballmer, Präsident von Microsoft, zu Pacific Bell CEO David Dorman nachdem Pacific Bell Netscape's Web Software der von Microsoft vorgezogen hatte.

"I am very excited and very honored, these are amazing times full of remarkable opportunities. Microsoft has all of the right stuff -- great people and great technology -- to dramatically take action on a new strategy that builds on the company's heritage of applying software know-how to the new world of software services -- a world we will pioneer along with our partners." ...
"Software is the key to the future. It will drive and accelerate innovations in hardware, wireless, broadband, e-commerce and other fields. Our vision is to create a new services platform that will ignite new opportunities for literally thousands of partners and customers around the world" Steve Ballmer, Präsident von Microsoft, anläßlich der Ernennung zum Präsidenten von Microsoft

Was unsere Kunden brauchen, ist klar. Mehr, mehr, mehr Windows."
Steve Ballmer, executive vice president, Microsoft

What do you mean by that? You don´t know what you are talking about.
Bill Gates on a press conference to a question implying that maybe Microsoft on the desktop is not the answer to everything.

There are people who don't like capitalism, and there are people who don't like PCs, but there's no one who likes the PC who doesn't like Microsoft.
Bill Gates

We are a great software company....
That's the only image anyone should have of us.
Bill Gates

Ich glaube, daß es für hochwertige Bilder eine rege Nachfrage auf dem Highway geben wird. Natürlich ist die Annahme, daß sich auch Privatpersonen die Mühe machen werden, den digitalen Bildervorrat zu durchmustern, zur Zeit noch Spekulation. Ich bin jedoch der Meinung, daß sich viele Menschen dafür interessieren werden, sobald ihnen die geeignete Benutzeroberfläche zur Verfügung steht.
Bill Gates, Buch: The Road Ahead

There won't be anything we won't say to people to try and convince them that our way is the way to go.
Bill Gates

It's possible, you can never know, that the universe exists only for me.
Bill Gates

If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.
Bill Gates

640K ought to be enough for anybody.
Bill Gates, 1981

"Every function in my new house is managed by the PC, and sometimes it works."
Bill Gates, 31. Dec. 1997 - Top 10 reasons why I love my computer, MS daily news (www.microsoft.com)

[...] the best way to prepare [to be a programmer] is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have written. In my case, I went to the garbage cans at the Computer Science Center and I fished out listings of their operating system.
Bill Gates

Wir hatten solche Browser als Teil von Windows angekündigt, bevor Netscape überhaupt existierte. Schon die erste Ausgabe von Windows 95 enthielt einen Browser.
Bill Gates
[Notiz: Wie man sich leicht überzeugen kann, besaß Win95 in der ersten Version keinen Browser, dieser wurde erst mit "Plus!" eingeführt. - Ed.]

Focus: "But there are bugs in any version which people would really like to have fixed."
Gates: "No! There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed. [...] Maybe you're not using it properly."
Focus Magazine, 23.10.1995

The idea that people know what they want is wrong.
Laura Jennings, Vice President, Microsoft Network

One World. One Web. One Program.
Microsoft, Internet Explorer 4 ad

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