perception Quotes

You can always tell what kind of a person a man really thinks you are by the earrings he gives you.

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top - I'm afraid that's not quite right.

Microsoft is involved in setting some fairly key standards and people are afraid of it because they think, Geez, they are quite capable. It's daunting, I suppose.

The outside perception and inside perception of Microsoft are so different. The view of Microsoft inside Microsoft is always kind of an underdog thing.

Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it's true.

You might say, well, aren't people saying that about wind and solar today? Not really. Only in the super-narrow sense that the capital costs per output, when the wind is blowing, is slightly lower.

Everything on the internet is real god damn it!

Headlines, in a way, are what mislead you because bad news is a headline, and gradual improvement is not.

With tech companies, whoever's the leader is always questioned, you know. They say, 'Is this the end of them?' And - there's more - more times people think that's the case than it really is the case.