axxackall's Journal: Microsoft quotes

I like this collection of misleading quotes from Microsoft, from Bill Gates and about Microsoft.

My favorite ones:

• "The Internet? We are not interested in it" -- Bill Gates, 1993
• "Sometimes we do get taken by surprise. For example, when the Internet came along, we had it as a fifth or sixth priority." -- Bill Gates, Jul, 1998
• "We had planned to integrate a Web browser with our operating system as far back as 1993" -- Microsoft (27 Jul 1998, filing its first court responses to federal antitrust)
• On code stability, from Focus Magazine: "Microsoft programs are generally bug-free. If you visit the Microsoft hotline, you'll literally have to wait weeks if not months until someone calls in with a bug in one of our programs. 99.99% of calls turn out to be user mistakes. [...] I know not a single less irrelevant reason for an update than bugfixes. The reasons for updates are to present more new features.
• Bill Gates, Free Market and the LA Times: "There are people who don't like capitalism, and people who don't like PCs. But there's no-one who likes the PC who doesn't like Microsoft"
• Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning. --Bill Gates, Business @ The Speed of Thought
• "640K ought to be enough for anybody." -- Bill Gates
• I don't think there's anything unique about human intellience. All the neurons in the brain that make up perceptions and emotions operate in a binary fashion. (Bill Gates)
• "There won't be anything we won't say to people to try and convince them that our way is the way to go."
• "We have no intention of shipping another bloated OS and shoving it down the throats of our users." -- Paul Maritz, Microsoft group vice president
• On the solid code base of Win9X: "If you can't make it good, at least make it look good."
• "Microsoft's biggest and most dangerous contribution to the software industry may be the degree to which it has lowered user expectations." -- Esther Schindler, OS/2 Magazine