Bill Joy Quotes

Google went in a consumer direction, and VMware was system infrastructure. But there are a lot of parallels and similarities.

A lot of it had to do with when it's released and what's out in the marketplace, what's its competition.

We're thrilled that our partnership with Adobe has now grown to span our three clouds - Microsoft Azure, Office 365, and Dynamics 365 - providing customers with the powerful integrations they need to navigate digital transformation.

It has not escaped us that other competitors have also identified health as an attractive marketplace.

I enthuse about Scrivener to all of my friends. Some of them even listen to me and download it. This is often swiftly followed by an email complaining that it's all very confusing, and they'll stick to Microsoft Word, thanks.

We have Windows 8 machines for our office. All of our staff have Windows phones. Some have desktops. We have a couple of folks who are using a Surface. I use a Surface.

I study my competition for at least an hour a day. I get on the internet, look at what they doing, then I look at ways to defeat them.

Here's a good rule of thumb: don't worry about a competitor at all, until they're actually beating you with a real shipped product.

If you truly don't have competition, then zoom out until you can define some. Competition can be as simple as the reliance on the status quo, Microsoft (since at some point Microsoft will compete with everyone for everything), or researchers in universities. Pick something, because saying you have no competition at all is a nonstarter.

It seems everyone is converging on a simple set of facts: Our lives are digital, and we wish to share our lives. Pinterest came at it through images, artfully curated. Facebook came at it through friends, cunningly organized. Dropbox came to it via files, cleverly clouded.

Business is a string of seemingly impossible problems looking for solutions. Each problem you solve creates a new barrier to entry for your next competitor.

Poor fellow, he suffers from files.

If you don't have a competitive advantage, don't compete.

Planes don't fly, trains don't run, banks don't operate without much of what IBM does.

Hedge funds are other hedge funds' toughest competition. And there are just more of them, and it's tougher and tougher all along.

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.

You've got to remember there's intense competition between Microsoft and Amazon.

I'm not claiming that we are the only guys who are going to succeed in the cloud. Others can succeed as well, just like in the previous generation.

I would say that the pharmaceutical industry is hyper-competitive from a global perspective.

The personal computer can be a virtual device.

We built Zoom for the business customers.

The Apple IIc, with its 128KB of RAM, 125KB floppy drive, word processor, and spreadsheet application, did everything I could imagine a computer doing at the time.

There are a lot of threats out there. Amazon can enter the travel market. Google could enter the accommodation space. But that is not something that we actively focus on.

Businesses always have competitors nipping at their heels. Historically, cities have not viewed themselves as subject to that same type of competition. But that's wrong.

We can only compete in the world against competitors from Asia, the United States, or wherever if we look at unmet needs.