Amazing quotes from jobs, Gates, and Torvalds

Steve Jobs is keen on the next big thing. Gates is fond of predictions but is almost always wrong. Torvalds's statement, I'm your God, perfectly depicts him.
Steve Jobs

Let's start with the man who co-founded Apple in 1976, left the company in 1985, then came back and saved the day in 1997.

1991:

What a computer is to me is the most remarkable tool
That we have ever come up with. It's the equivalent of a bicycle
Our minds.

1994,While he was obviusly not working at Apple:

If I were running Apple, I wowould milk the Macintosh
All it's worth-and get busy on the next great thing. The PC wars are
Over. Done. Microsoft won a long time ago.

1996,On Bill Gates:

I wish him the best, I really do. I just think he and
Microsoft are a bit narrow. He 'd be a broader guy if he had dropped
Acid once or gone off to an ashram when he was younger.

1997,On Apple products:

The products suck! There's no sex in them anymore!

2003,A modest comment on the iPod and iTunes:

It will go down in history as a turning point for the music industry. This is landmark stuff. I can't overestimate it!

2006,On Microsoft:

Our friends up North spend over five billion dollars on
Research and development and all they seem to do is copy Google and
Apple.

2007,On his $1 annual salary:

I make every ty cents for showing up... And the other 50 cents is based on my performance.

Bill Gates

Now on to the man who co-founded Microsoft in 1975 and later became the richest man in the world.

1980:

There's nobody getting rich writing software that I know.

1983:

We will never make a 32-bit operating system.

1984:

The next generation of interesting software will be done on the Macintosh, not the ibm pc.

1987:

I believe OS/2 is destined to be the most important operating system, and possibly program, of all time.

1991:

If people had understood how patents wocould be granted
When most of today's ideas were specified TED, and had taken out patents,
The industry wocould be at a complete standstill today.

1993:

The Internet? We are not interested in it.

1995:

There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed.

1996,On the oft-quoted "640 K ought to be enough for anybody ."

I 've said some stupid things and some wrong things,
Not that. No one involved in computers wowould ever say that a certain
Amount of memory is enough for all time... I keep bumping into that silly
Quotation attributedto me that says 640 K of memory is enough.

1998:

Microsoft looks at new ideas, they don't evaluate
Whether the idea will move the industry forward, they ask, 'How will it
Help us buy more copies of windows? '

1998,Memo to the Office product group:

One thing we have got to change in our strategy-
Allowing office events ents to be rendered very well by other people's
Browsers is one of the most destructive things we coshould do to
Company. We have to stop putting any effort into this and make sure
That Office documents very well depends on proprietary ie capabilities.

2001:

Microsoft has had clear competitors in the past. It's a good thing we have museums to document that.

2004:

Spam will be a thing of the past in two years 'time.

Linus Torvalds

Finally, the man who in 1991 started to work on what wocould become Linux.

1991:

I'm doing a (free) Operating System (just a Hoby, won't be big and professional like GNU) for 386 (486) at clones.

1996:

Some people have told me they don't think a fat penguin
Really embodies the grace of Linux, which just tells me they have never
Seen an angry penguin charging at them in excess of 100mph. They 'd be
Lot more careful about what they say if they had.

1998:

My name is Linus Torvalds and I am your god.

2001:

Do you pine for the days when men were men and wrote their own device drivers?

2003:

Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will be just be a completely unintentional side effect.

2006:

Talk is cheap. Show me the code.

2006:

Which mindset is right? Mine, of course. People who
Disagree with me are by definition crazy. (until I change my mind, when
They can suddenly become upstanding citizens. I'm flexible, and not
Black-and-white .)

2007:

I have an ego the size of a small planet.

2008:

Security people are often the black-and-white kind
People that I can't stand. I think the OpenBSD crowd is a bunch
Masturbating monkeys, in that they make such a big deal about
Concentrating on security to the point where they pretty much admit
That nothing else matters to them.

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