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

- Dennis Ritchie

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

- Larry Ellison

A photo app is a utility. It's like comparing 'Twitter' to Microsoft Word. If you want to be an author, you're not always going to constrain yourself to 140 characters.

- Kevin Systrom

I would buy a Mac today if I was not working at Microsoft.

- Jim Allchin

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

- Jon Heder

Microsoft isn't stupid.

- Jesse Schell

I think they should separate Microsoft's application group from its operating system group.

- Jim Barksdale

Companies such as Microsoft, Cisco and Intel were just starting at their 10-year anniversary.

- Jerry Yang

In 2005, MTV Networks considered buying Facebook for seventy-five million dollars. Yahoo! and Microsoft soon offered much more. Zuckerberg turned them all down.

- Jose Antonio Vargas

My guess is that Apple won't just pass Microsoft in market capitalization, but will go way beyond it.

- John Sculley

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

- Al Gore

Microsoft's new OS, Windows 7, may finally be a worthy successor to XP, eliminating the clutter of Vista and letting users get to what they want to use without the fuss. All this, while remaining compatible with their IT departments' demands for scalability and custom implementations.

- Douglas Rushkoff

I think most people either forget or don't know that Microsoft only hires people with I.Q.'s well over 130.

- Douglas Coupland

I'm going to retain a lot of Microsoft's stock.

- Bill Gates

When I was in my 40s, Microsoft was my primary activity.

- Bill Gates

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

No one person controls Microsoft. The board and the shareholders decide whether they want to have me as CEO.

- Bill Gates

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

- Bill Gates

It's a nice reader, but there's nothing on the iPad I look at and say, 'Oh, I wish Microsoft had done it.'

- Bill Gates

A lot of people think, and Microsoft is happy to let them think, that all great things are invented by Microsoft. In fact, very, very little has been invented by Microsoft.

- Alan Cooper