#soft

What we've gone through in the last several years has caused some people to question 'Can we trust Microsoft?' ↗

— Steve Ballmer

#caused #gone #last #microsoft #people

Constructive criticism is about finding something good and positive to soften the blow to the real critique of what really went on. ↗

— Paula Abdul

#blow #constructive #constructive criticism #criticism #critique

Passion is all but soft, it's not tender, it's violence to which you get hooked by pleasure. ↗

— Isabelle Adjani

#hooked #passion #pleasure #soft #tender

There is no neat distinction between operating system software and the software that runs on top of it. ↗

— Jim Allchin

#distinction #neat #operating #operating system #runs

Let there be nothing within thee that is not very beautiful and very gentle, and there will be nothing without thee that is not beautiful and softened by the spell of thy presence. ↗

— James Allen

#gentle #nothing #presence #softened #spell

When we played softball, I'd steal second base, feel guilty and go back. ↗

— Woody Allen

#base #feel #go #guilty #i

My own theory is that we are in the middle of a dramatic and broad technological and economic shift in which software companies are poised to take over large swathes of the economy. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#companies #dramatic #economic #economy #large

Perhaps the single most dramatic example of this phenomenon of software eating a traditional business is the suicide of Borders and corresponding rise of Amazon. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#borders #business #corresponding #dramatic #eating

Qualified software engineers, managers, marketers and salespeople in Silicon Valley can rack up dozens of high-paying, high-upside job offers any time they want, while national unemployment and underemployment is sky high. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#dozens #engineers #high #high-paying #job

Our enemies are Medes and Persians, men who for centuries have lived soft and luxurious lives; we of Macedon for generations past have been trained in the hard school of danger and war. Above all, we are free men, and they are slaves. ↗

— Arrian

#been #centuries #danger #free #free men