Craig Mundie quotes

“Data are becoming the new raw material of business.”
-- Craig Mundie

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“I am not that concerned that innovation in some large scale sense will suddenly and abruptly shift from one part of the world to another.”
-- Craig Mundie

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“We are not concerned about innovation shifting from the U.S. I still believe that the U.S. still has capabilities for innovation.”
-- Craig Mundie

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“The Internet was full of sites producing content for free, in the hope that somehow they'd generate revenue from sources that never materialized, whether it was advertising, subscriptions, or a wing and a prayer.”
-- Craig Mundie

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“Let me be clear - Microsoft has no beef with open source.”
-- Craig Mundie

Source : "A Tip of the Black Hat From MS" by Farhad Manjoo, www.wired.com. July 27, 2001.

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“The distinction between right and wrong ("la distinction du bien et du mal", Fr.), is nothing else than their unyielding (or implacable) opposition; thus the moral consciousness is an innate and intimate revelation of the absolute, which goes beyond (or goes pass, or exceed) every empirical data (or given information). It is only on these principles that we will be able to establish ("pourront être édifiées", Fr.) the real basis of morality.”

Source : "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 60), 1937.

“Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born - the beneficiary inasmuch as language gives access to the accumulated records of other people's experience, the victim in so far as it confirms him in the belief that reduced awareness is the only awareness and as it bedevils his sense of reality, so that he is all too apt to take his concepts for data, his words for actual things.”

“Time is the explicable raw material of everything.”

“We must find new lands from which we can easily obtain raw materials and at the same time exploit the cheap slave labor that is available from the natives of the colonies. The colonies would also provide a dumping ground for the surplus goods produced in our factories.”

“A ruling intelligentsia, whether in Europe, Asia or Africa, treats the masses as raw material to be experimented on, processed, and wasted at will.”

“Order generally was a product of human activity. Chaos existed as a raw material from which to create order.”

“For me, there was never an end game for becoming a director.”

“You worry that we're becoming monsters. Merlin, we already were monsters. You didn't make us any worse.”

Source : Alastair Reynolds (2016). “Beyond the Aquila Rift: The Best of Alastair Reynolds”, p.189, Hachette UK

“The American lives even more for his goals, for the future, than the European. Life for him is always becoming, never being.”

“Many countries persecute their own citizens and intern them in prisons or concentration camps. Oppression is becoming more and more a part of the systems.”