Paul Virilio Quotes

This is a software-powered world.

At Microsoft, the magic of software is used to take on very interesting challenges.

War is the ultimate realization of modern technology.

When Paul Allen and I started Microsoft over 30 years ago, we had big dreams about software. We had dreams about the impact it could have.

I am a programmer.

Indeed, whenever a new idea is developed, as for example ballooning, warfare immediately takes possession.

We live in an age that is driven by information. Technological breakthroughs... are changing the face of war and how we prepare for war.

I felt there was a need for us to build a new programming language. I also had come to see that Microsoft functions best when it controls its own destiny.

You do have to change things as warfare changes.

I will allow myself to call it devilish; for this was the new war fiend, destined, along with others of the same breed, to annihilate whole navies and batter down old supremacies.

In war, science has proven itself an evil genius; it has made war more terrible than it ever was before. Man used to be content to slaughter his fellow men on a single plane---the earth's surface. Science has taught him to go down into the water and shoot up from below and to go up into the clouds and shoot down from above, thus making the battlefield three times a bloody as it was before

The government has been screwing up computer program development for years.

IT put India on the map of the world and told Indians that they are somebody in the world. There is something about technology that is very empowering: 'We are designing software for the best companies in the world.'

Microsoft loves Linux.

We're the toolmakers. Our developers are the real creative geniuses.

Old companies that had nothing to do with software in the past all have software development activities to unlock the invention that's occurring inside of these organizations. And so the developer is a very important part of that overall ecosystem.

The programmers of tomorrow are the wizards of the future.

For a long time it puzzled me how something so expensive, so leading edge, could be so useless. And then it occurred to me that a computer is a stupid machine with the ability to do incredibly smart things, while computer programmers are smart people with the ability to do incredibly stupid things. They are, in short, a perfect match.

Computer science is the operating system for all innovation.

We live in a world of guided missiles and misguided men.

Microsoft is a company that manages imagination.

We have guided missiles and misguided men.

I am full of admiration for the technologists who have developed all sorts of gadgets for the purpose of improving communications. However, I believe that all these fascinating machines are complementary to, and not substitutes for, books and the printed word.

Developers, developers, developers, developers.

They don't respect us, so let's surprise them, we'll drop the big one, pulverize them.