Walt Mossberg Quotes

I will say that Surface has been a big disappointment for us and for Microsoft. Both of our expectations from the product were much greater than what came to be and not only that. We invested enormous amount into research and development and spent a lot of time and energy into it.

A great ad campaign will make a bad product fail faster. It will get more people to know it's bad.

If it has to sell its mascot, your team sucks.

Lotus's efforts around the Mac were pathetically unsuccessful, which is sad.

Amazon makes mistakes, including launching a smartphone in 2014 that was a flop and to which I gave a poor review.

Here is no choice but either do or die.

In the most important areas, as individuals and countries, we don't change our behavior until we have our backs to the wall.

I really empathise with some of my peers who had success in the early years; then it dries up, and so there's no reason to get up in the morning.

The iPhone was broadly dismissed. The iPod was broadly dismissed. The iPad was probably more copiously written off as a large iPod.

I'm the classic case of a great player on a bad team, and it stinks.

It sucks when you do poorly at your job.

By the time I got to 2015, I was sliding down the card. I was getting opportunities that I thought were kind of wasted. Like, I became the King of the Ring, which sounds like it should be impressive, but what it was followed up with was zero rises.

When you don't win anything, at the end of the day, you cannot say it is a good season.

I've been on a 1-15 team.

I think Apple Watch might be a tougher sell to current watch wearers than non-watch wearers. Non-watch wearers have an open wrist, and if they cared about the glance-able convenience of an always-visible watch dial, they would be wearing a traditional watch already.

If life is tough, at least you got that thing you can pawn.

Roberto Mancini did not make the most of me.

I think everyone is fairly fed up with mildly dysfunctional people being put under pressure and then behaving abysmally.

People are dangerous when they have nothing to lose.

Playing a rookie at quarterback tells the other players that you're giving up the season.

If your first film does badly, there's no guarantee of the second film.

I failed every class up until I dropped out freshman year.

You get into a situation where your back's up against the wall and you don't have any option but to go out swinging, so you might as well go for it.

The '$O$' phase, it was like, 'Save Our Souls': we didn't know how we were going to get out of our situation... It was our last chance just to go all out. 'Ten$ion' was another phase, to maintain the tension we had, just to pretend nothing had happened and stay in that same furious, hungry zone.

You never plan on losing double-digit games in a season. You don't plan on losing any.