Microsoft

• "I wonder what Jesus would do if He had to reload Windows 95 for the eighth time today ?" - Mirabour Gilbride

• "MS-DOS isn't dead, it just smells that way." - Henry Spencer

• "In a world without walls and fences, who needs Windows and Gates?" - Dino Esposito

• "Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight." - Bill Gates

• "...the best way to prepare [to be a programmer] is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have written. In my case, I went to the garbage cans at the Computer Science Center and fished out listings of their operating system." - Bill Gates

• "People say Microsoft payed $14M for using the Rolling Stones song 'Start me up' in their commercials. This is wrong. Microsoft payed $14M only for a part of the song. For instance, they didn't use the line 'You'll make a grown man cry'."

• "Our products just aren't engineered for security," - Brian Valentine (VP in charge of MS Windows Development)

• "HighContrast mode is turned on. This totally ***** our style sheet as most of it will" - Windows 2000 source code (private/shell/applets/welcome/html/webapp.cpp)

• "The user ****** up" - Windows 2000 source code (private/windbg64/debugger/tl/remote/shell/windbgrm .c)

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*       !!!!!!!IF YOU CHANGE TABS TO SPACES, YOU WILL BE KILLED!!!!!!!
*       !!!!!!!!!!!!!!DOING SO ***** THE BUILD PROCESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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- Windows 2000 source code (private/windows/media/avi/verinfo.16/verinfo.h)

• "!!!this is ****** if a map goes to multiple physical devices" - Windows 2000 source code (private/windows/shell/control/midi/map.c)

• "BUGBUG - DON'T DO THIS SHIT." - Windows 2000 source code (private/inet/wininet/urlcache/conman.cxx)

• "this shit's read only" - Windows 2000 source code (private/shell/ext/netplwiz/mnddlg.cpp)

• "Some ugly shit goin' on here!" - Windows 2000 source code (private/shell/win16/commctrl/ctl3d.c)

• "Holy shit, couldn't change formats, time to punt!" - Windows 2000 source code (several places)

• "lets do some majic shit so the compiler generates "good" code." - Windows 2000 source code (private/windows/media/avi/msrle/rle.c)

• "We have to do this only because Exchange is a moron." - Windows 2000 source code (private\shell\ext\ftp\ftpdrop.cpp)

• "God, I hate this hack ..." - Windows 2000 source code (private\inet\mshtml\src\site\layout\flowlyt.cxx)

• "CallProc32W is insane. It's a variadic function that uses the pascal calling convention. (It probably makes more sense when you're stoned.)" - Windows 2000 source code (private\shell\ext\tweakui\genthunk.c)

• "These undocumented messages are used by Excel 5.0" - Windows 2000 source code (private\mvdm\wow32\wcntl32.c)

• "Probably the most dangerous and powerful industrialist of our age" - Scott McNealy(about Bill Gates)

• "A giant hairball" - Scott McNealy (about Windows NT)

• "The beast from Redmond" - Scott McNealy (about Microsoft)

• "the evil empire" - Scott McNealy (about Microsoft)