Quotes

Everybody is a potential partner

In our view, everybody is a potential partner -- until they shoot at us.

AOL CEO, Information Week 11 March 1996 p10

Most articulate vegetable ever

Microsoft has a new version out, Windows XP, which according everybody is the "most reliable Windows ever." To me, this is like saying that asparagus is "the most articulate vegetable ever."

To the optimist

  • To the optimist, the glass is half full.
  • To the pessimist, the glass is half empty.
  • To the engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
  • To the plumber, any liquid in the glass is potential income.

and Ed O'Connell

Known generally for imitation

Microsoft is known generally for imitation rather than innovation. When Microsoft does something new, its purpose is strategic -- not to improve computing for the users, but to close off future alternatives for them.

RMS

in response to criticism of the GPL by Jim Allchin, Group VP of Operating-Systems Develoment at Microsoft

Our advantage at Microsoft

That's our advantage at Microsoft; we set the standards and we can change them.

of Microsoft, quoted in the Feb 1993 Unix Review editorial

A million monkeys

We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true.

ILP 1996

Computers are useless

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

3.141592653589793

Instead of referring to pi as 3.141592653589793 at every appearance, the variable PI can be given that value with a DATA statement and used instead of the longer form of the constant. This also simplifies modifying the program, should the value of pi change.

for Xerox Computers

Transputer

The lack of these features merely serves to make systems programming for the the Transputer an interesting exercise.

All others must submit an X.509 certificate

In God we trust -- all others must submit an X.509 certificate.

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