The companies that can afford to do basic research (and can't afford not to) are ones that dominate their markets. ... It's cheap insurance, since fa…

- Robert X. Cringely

Apple isn't the next Microsoft, you see. Apple is not the next anything because the role it aspires to transcends anything imaginable by Microsoft, e…

- Robert X. Cringely

The simple rule about weapons is that if thery can be built, they will be built.

- Robert X. Cringely

For every hour of brains, you will be charged three hours. The other two hours go to management and project management, which is to say they are wast…

- Robert X. Cringely

There is a fantasy in Redmond that Microsoft products are innovative, but this is based entirely on a peculiar confusion of the words "innovative" an…

- Robert X. Cringely

If you ask someone whether our Constitutional rights are being flushed down the porcelain oubliette, and their response is, "If I answer that honestl…

- Robert X. Cringely

Hewlett Packard at one point had only three private offices. One belonged to Hewlett, one to Packard, and the third to a guy named Paul Ely who annoy…

- Robert X. Cringely

Apple and Google will compete like crazy for our data because once they have it we'll be their customers forever.

- Robert X. Cringely

If the automobile had followed the same development as the computer, a Rolls Royce would today cost $100 and get a million miles per gallon, and expl…

- Robert X. Cringely