Ray Ozzie quotes
-
“Complexity kills. It sucks the life out of developers, it makes products difficult to plan, build and test, it introduces security challenges, and it causes end-user and administrator frustration.”
-- Ray OzzieSource : "Burden of the years weighs on Windows" by Steve Lohr and John Markoff, www.nytimes.com. March 26, 2006.
-
“I love software, because if you can imagine something, you can build it.”
-- Ray OzzieSource : "Ray Ozzie Wants to Push Microsoft Back Into Startup Mode" by Steven Levy, www.wired.com. November 24, 2008.
-
“Those who can envision a plausible future that's brighter than today will earn the opportunity to lead.”
-- Ray OzzieSource : 'Apple's iPad tablet eats into PC market" by Charles Arthur, www.theguardian.com. November 29, 2010.
-
“Regardless of past aspirations, this is the right time to be focusing on services for two specific reasons The increasing ubiquity of broadband has made it viable, and the proven economics of the advertising model has made it profitable.”
-- Ray Ozzie -
-
“What held people together was the belief that you're really going to change the world. I think that's the nature of many startups. You believe that what you are doing is going to have a dramatic impact. You might not exactly know how, but you really have a belief. That keeps you going and going through many changes and a lot of uncertainty.”
-- Ray Ozzie -
“There are pros and cons to taking money. The best kind of company is one where you don't have to take any moneyI funded the first few years myself. But eventually, I took some money from Mitch Kapor and then others. Not so much because I needed it at that point, but because I knew that, ultimately, you cannot accomplish something completely on your own. You really need to develop a network of people who win when you win.”
-- Ray Ozzie
You may also like:
-
Andy Hertzfeld
Computer Scientist -
Bill Gates
Investor -
Bob Frankston
Software Developer -
Butler Lampson
Computer Scientist -
Charles Simonyi
Executive -
Dan Bricklin
Software Developer -
Gary Kildall
Computer Scientist -
Jaron Lanier
Writer -
Jef Raskin
Computer Scientist -
John Warnock
Computer scientist -
Mark Zuckerberg
Programmer -
Melinda Gates
Businesswoman -
Satya Nadella
Executive -
Scott Kim
Computer game designer -
Steve Ballmer
Businessman -
Steve Jobs
Entrepreneur -
Toru Iwatani
Video Game Designer
