M.C. Steve Quotes

Ideas are self-replenishing, like snot

Let us forget the past - this is the only way to be genuinely surprised.

Stab me if you can enjoy it - but not if it feels like a duty. Stab me vertically if I'm lying down and horizontally if I'm running

An office is a machine for dying.

Success is virulent. Once you get the bug then it's in you.

Tell me your thinking, and I'll tell you what your life looks like.

Trust in your own beliefs or succumb to the influence of others'.

We're going to think big, we're going to bet big.

No. 1 thing is that life is just not as interrupt-driven as when you're running a company.

This is all about having great leaders who can drive agile innovation and agile decision-making.

I didn't leave business school to go bankrupt.

As a global company, our future growth and success requires that we constantly look at ways to improve our ability to serve customers worldwide.

I would love to see all open-source innovation happen on top of Windows.

I think the biggest mistake most people make when they pick their first job is they don't worry enough about whether they'll love the work, and they worry more about whether it's good experience

Only our company and a handful of others are poised to write the future.

You don't need to be a computer scientist to use a Windows Phone. I think you do to use an Android phone.

I'd rather use Windows and Internet Explorer in Hell than I'd use Linux and Mozilla Firefox in Heaven!

The Internet Was Designed For The PC. The Internet Is Not Designed For The iPhone

Most people still steal music.

Maybe I'm an emblem of an old era, and I have to move on.

Since I'm not a seller of the stock, I don't really care what it is today.

I don't think anyone has done a [tablet] product that I see customers wanting.

I'm not sure blogs are necessarily the best place to get a pulse on anything. People want to blog for a variety of reasons, and that may or may not be representative.

I want people to understand the amazing, positive way our software can make leisure time more enjoyable, and work and businesses more successful.

Our industry is going through quite a wave of innovation and it's being powered by a phenomenon which is referred to as the cloud.

Getting the big things right that make all the money, that's long cycle, really executing in a way that allows you to do it, that's short cycle.

I have lots of sources of information about what's going on at the company. I think I have a pretty good pulse on where we are and what people are thinking.

There is such an overvaluation of technology stocks that it is absurd. I would include our stock in that category. It is bad for the long-term worth of the economy.

If the CEO doesn’t see the playing field, nobody else can. The team may need to see it too, but the CEO really needs to be able to see the entire competitive space.

I have four words for you: I love this company, yeah!

I’d like to own Microsoft shares until I either give something to charity or I die.

I'm going to f---ing bury that guy, I have done it before, and I will do it again. I'm going to f---ing kill Google.

Ford shared this vision. We are inviting more players to join in.

I think PCs are going to continue to shift in form factor. The real question is: What's a PC?

[Apple and RIM] are probably restricted, in some sense, to a certain maximum. ... If you want to reach more people than that, you sort-of have to separate the hardware and the software issue.

Not only because the product wasn't a great product, but remember it took us five or six years to ship it. Then we had to sort of fix it. That was what I might call Windows 7.

Make hiring a top priority.

There's a lot of Google fascination out there and we share it, and we're going to compete, we're going to compete very, very hard.

I want to make sure (a user) can't get through ... an online experience without hitting a Microsoft ad.

I don't think there is one size that fits all. I've been to too many meetings with journalists who spent the first 10 minutes of the meeting setting up iPad to look like a laptop.

I think these things social networks are going to have some legs,and yet there's a faddishness, a faddish nature about anything that basically appeals to younger people.

Ultimately progress is measured sort of through the eyes of users.

I've found three or four things that are quite interesting to me that I'm focused on. That's been fun.The Clippers is obviously one of them.

As a shareholder I have expressed my frustration with not getting more information about revenue and margins from the cloud.

It actually turns out to be much harder to really understand government across state local and federal.

It's hard to invent a new thing, and it's just as hard to invent another new thing.

I can tell you first-hand from my experiences with Sacramento, the league does try to honor the fan bases it has, and encourage teams to stay in their home markets.

The stock market has always had its own meter. Sometimes it's ahead of itself, sometimes it's behind itself. A broken watch is right twice a day.

When you're in politics sometimes you step on toes and they come back and kick you in the backside.

I was struck by the effortless way they moved between musical styles, all the while managing to make each their own. It was instantaneous that I knew I wanted to work with them.