Miguel de Icaza Quotes

Microsoft certainly makes products for the Macintosh.

Windows is the best place; it's the home for the very best Microsoft experiences.

Microsoft was not a mysterious, strange entity. You put your PC on and there's an ad for them.

People everywhere love Windows.

Software comes from heaven when you have good hardware.

I don't try to be a threat to MicroSoft, mainly because I don't really see MS as competition. Especially not Windows-the goals of Linux and Windows are simply so different.

I've been a Mac guy for almost my entire adult life. I wrote my first college papers on a typewriter, but by the end of my freshman year - almost 20 years ago - I was on an IBM PC. Then, in 1984, I found the Mac, and I never looked back.

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

When you say 'I wrote a program that crashed Windows,' people just stare at you blankly and say 'Hey, I got those with the system, for free.'

All the best people in life seem to like LINUX.

To me, Microsoft is about empowerment... we are the original democratizing force, putting a PC in every home and every desk.

Microsoft loves Linux.

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've never used an app.

You don't know the impact of Windows XP. You don't know what the economic impact is going to be.

I have a lot of respect for Microsoft.

I grew up with Microsoft. I know the leadership of Microsoft.

I write almost entlirely on Macs, because: Windows gives me hives.

My current computer, in addition to 'DOS,' has 'Windows,' which is another invention of Bill Gates, designed as a security measure to thwart those users who are somehow able to get past DOS.

I bought Windows 2.0, Windows 3.0, Windows 3.1415926, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows RSVP, The Best of Windows, Windows Strikes Back, Windows Does Dallas, and Windows Let's All Buy Bill Gates a House the Size of Vermont.

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

I've had the iPad for a nice little minute, not into gadgets like that, though.

Apple makes great hardware. The reality is, in the OS, we see things differently.

Most of what we do is software, Internet, and mobile. A fair amount of that is transactional.

As far as solving India's problems with technology is concerned, I think there are some wrong assumptions in making computing work at the grassroots. We need to go beyond the notion of technology being all about computers.