All Quotes

Microeconomics is the study of how specific choices made by businesses, consumers and governments affect the markets for different goods and services. For example, a microeconomist might examine how price changes affect sales of apples relative to oranges.
‐‐ Alex Berenson

Microfinance does not require previous experience or loans to the same extent as a small-business loan, so it's easier for women to enter the micro sector.
‐‐ Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

Microfinance initiatives are very high-touch models. The loan officer meets with local groups of borrowers every week, they share tips and techniques. There's a lot of training and learning that goes on, which adds to the cost of the model.
‐‐ Pierre Omidyar

Micronutrient-poor foods, like pasta, sugar, and soda, don't just give you empty calories and make you fat; they also do damage to the body and cause disease.
‐‐ Joel Fuhrman

Micropayments are great if you use them for a product or service with certain properties. It must be one where you can get away with usage-based pricing, and where there is a strong rationale for making it cheap, yet not free.
‐‐ Nathan Myhrvold

Microphones are just like people, if you shout at them, they get scared.
‐‐ Paul McCartney

Microsoft, Apple, Facebook all bought huge patent portfolios to further their strategic game. They're doing what I'm doing!
‐‐ Nathan Myhrvold

Microsoft certainly makes products for the Macintosh.
‐‐ Melinda Gates

Microsoft could help Facebook with one of the biggest challenges, namely monetizing its traffic without reducing the user's experience. It's obvious that Microsoft needs traffic and Facebook needs search.
‐‐ David Einhorn

Microsoft does platform, not really infrastructure, and they do a little bit of Saas.
‐‐ Safra A. Catz

Microsoft first entered the living room with Ultimate TV way back in 2000 - a year before Apple's first iPod was announced. Ultimate TV offered consumers a DVR and supporting online services, including 14 days of programming and the ability to record 35 hours of programming. Microsoft's reach was then thwarted when Echostar acquired DIRECTV.
‐‐ Jay Samit

Microsoft has a monopoly over the desktop operating systems.
‐‐ Stewart Alsop

Microsoft has had two goals in the last 10 years. One was to copy the Mac, and the other was to copy Lotus' success in the spreadsheet - basically, the applications business. And over the course of the last 10 years, Microsoft accomplished both of those goals. And now they are completely lost.
‐‐ Steve Jobs

Microsoft has no SQL Server developers. We have only Azure developers.
‐‐ Satya Nadella

Microsoft has tried to do a lot of things in search... thrown a lot of money. But nothing they have done has worked at all.
‐‐ David Filo

Microsoft is committed to the ubiquity of the Skype experience - communication across every device and every platform will remain a primary focus.
‐‐ Tony Bates

Microsoft is engaging in unlawful predatory practices that go well beyond the scope of fair competition.
‐‐ Orrin Hatch

Microsoft is not about greed. It's about innovation and fairness.
‐‐ Bill Gates

Microsoft is one of those rare companies to have truly revolutionized the world through technology, and I couldn't be more honored to have been chosen to lead the company.
‐‐ Satya Nadella

Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems.
‐‐ Linus Torvalds

Microsoft isn't stupid.
‐‐ Jesse Schell

Microsoft loves Linux.
‐‐ Satya Nadella

Microsoft represents the best of ourselves or the worst.
‐‐ Mitch Kapor

Microsoft Research has a thing called the Sense Cam that, as you walk around, it's taking photos all the time. And the software will filter and find the ones that are interesting without having to think, 'Let's get out the camera and get that shot.' You just have that, and software helps you pick what you want.
‐‐ Bill Gates

Microsoft runs the world's biggest blogging platform, MSN Spaces.
‐‐ Rebecca MacKinnon

Microsoft's an important partner for Dell, an important company in the industry.
‐‐ Michael Dell

Microsoft's culture is very strong.
‐‐ Steve Ballmer

Microsoft's new OS, Windows 7, may finally be a worthy successor to XP, eliminating the clutter of Vista and letting users get to what they want to use without the fuss. All this, while remaining compatible with their IT departments' demands for scalability and custom implementations.
‐‐ Douglas Rushkoff

Microsoft was not a mysterious, strange entity. You put your PC on and there's an ad for them.
‐‐ Jim Cramer

Microwave sales have plateaued as people realize that reheated TV dinners give us no joy.
‐‐ Kimbal Musk

Microwork gives marginalized people a chance to earn a living by playing a vital role in the business processes of big companies. In parallel, the organization assists local entrepreneurs in running microwork centers, helping to grow a new pool of business talent across the developing world.
‐‐ Leila Janah

Mid-range to low-budget movies have to have a name in the lead to get financing for it.
‐‐ Joel Kinnaman

Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, 'Why not?' and the other, 'Why bother?'
‐‐ Sydney J. Harris

Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature.
‐‐ Harold Coffin

Middle -age is the time of life, that a man first notices - in his wife.
‐‐ Richard Armour

Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.
‐‐ Don Marquis

Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons.
‐‐ Lillian Gordy Carter

Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.
‐‐ Ogden Nash

Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.
‐‐ Ogden Nash

Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.
‐‐ Bob Hope

Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places.
‐‐ E. Joseph Cossman

Middle age is when your old classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you.
‐‐ Bennett Cerf

Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.
‐‐ Doris Day

Middle Age - later than you think and sooner than you expect.
‐‐ Earl Wilson

Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.
‐‐ Franklin Pierce Adams

Middle age snuffs out more talent than even wars or sudden death does.
‐‐ Gerald Brenan

Middle age snuffs out more talent than ever wars or sudden deaths do.
‐‐ Richard Hughes

Middle age went by while I was mourning for my lost youth.
‐‐ Mason Cooley

Middle age: when you begin to exchange your emotions for symptoms.
‐‐ Irvin S. Cobb

Middle-aged women have greater stability, they are more loyal, and their capacity for steady work is greater than that of younger women.
‐‐ Kate Smith