Ray Ozzie Quotations

Seamlessness is key to the live strategy. There's a significant opportunity for revenue growth through advertising as it pertains to software as a service.

Seamlessness is key to the live strategy, ... There's a significant opportunity for revenue growth through advertising as it pertains to software as a service.

What should we do to bring Office's classic COM-based publish-and-subscribe capabilities to a world where RSS and XML have become the de facto publish-and-subscribe mechanisms? ... Connected Office.

There are pros and cons to taking money. The best kind of company is one where you don't have to take any moneyI funded the first few years myself. But eventually, I took some money from Mitch Kapor and then others. Not so much because I needed it at that point, but because I knew that, ultimately, you cannot accomplish something completely on your own. You really need to develop a network of people who win when you win.

Regardless of past aspirations, this is the right time to be focusing on services for two specific reasons The increasing ubiquity of broadband has made it viable, and the proven economics of the advertising model has made it profitable.

Those who can envision a plausible future that's brighter than today will earn the opportunity to lead.

So now there is a 'second tsunami' coming. I wonder just how hard Microsoft will slam into the bottom this time before they get it figured out, if they get it figured out correctly.

We will be leaders in terms of understanding where ads really serve the user to get their jobs done, not just in a search box on the Web.

We haven't yet cracked how to integrate what's on the desktop with what's in the various content management systems.

You just want to think about what you want to accomplish,