Intel Quotes

Modern PCs are horrible. ACPI is a complete design disaster in every way. But we're kind of stuck with it. If any Intel people are listening to this and you had anything to do with ACPI, shoot yourself now, before you reproduce. (Linus Torvalds)

Killing Intel, I, I just had to resign from the Apple Board.

Arthur Rock

My most radical shift was leaving Intel and joining Google, a small startup at the time, even though I was pregnant.

Susan Wojcicki

How could this Y2K be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?

Al Gore

So Mac OS X is cross-platform by design, right from the very beginning. So Mac OS X is singing on Intel processors, and I'd just like to show you right now. As a matter of fact... this system I've been using here... Let go have a look... [reveals that the system he had been using for the presentation was running Mac OS X 10.4.1 on a machine using a 3.6 GHz Pentium 4 processor] So.. we've been running on an Intel machine all morning.

Steve Jobs

Now, I have something to tell you today. Mac OS X has been leading a secret double life - for the past five years. There have been rumors to this effect... but this is Apple's campus in Cupertino - let's zoom in on it - in that building right there... we've had teams doing the "just-in-case" scenario; and our rules have been that our designs for OS X must be processor independent, and that every project must be built for both the Power PC and Intel processors. And so today for the first time, I can confirm the rumors that every release of OS X has been compiled for both Power PC and Intel - this has been going on for the last five years. Just in case.

Steve Jobs

And here's the first thing I would do if I were president of the United States. I wouldn't let Congress leave town until we fix this. I would literally use the military to keep them in if I had to. We're not leaving town until we restore these defense cuts. We are not leaving town until we restore the intel cuts.

Lindsey Graham

EFI is this other Intel brain-damage (the first one being ACPI).

Linus Torvalds

When I came to Intel, I was scared to death. I left a very secure job where I knew what I was doing and started running R&D for a brand new venture in untried territory. It was terrifying.

Andy Grove

In various bits and pieces, we have steered Intel from a start-up to one of the central companies of the information economy.

Andy Grove

If Apple has a flaw, it's the inability of the company to crush competition using the kind of aggressive tactics that companies like Microsoft and Intel have always applied. (John C. Dvorak)

The Apple iPad is not going to be the company's next runaway best seller. Not if the industry can help it. ... with the iPad, Apple may have irked its somewhat new partner Intel Corp. Intel gets spanked by nobody.

John C. Dvorak

What does 'politicizing intelligence' mean? Using intel, or more often, partial intel, to produce an effect in line with White House policies rather than giving a full picture of a particular situation.

Elliott Abrams

The vast majority of prisoners at Abu Ghraib, even after interrogation, had no further intel value whatsoever.

Janis Karpinski

The mutual fund industry provided the money for Intel and Motorola and Hewlett-Packard to crush the competitors.

Jim Cramer

With all due respect to Microsoft and Intel, there is no substitute for being in the right place at the right time.

Andy Grove

Intel has a long an ugly history of behaving unethically, mostly against competitors like AMD and more recently Qualcomm (its partner in this, Apple, was just highlighted as being basically anti-innovation).

Rob Enderle

[T]he litigation between Qualcomm and Apple/Intel ... is weird. What makes it weird is that Intel appears to think that by helping Apple drive down Qualcomm prices, it will gain an advantage, but since its only value is as a lower cost, lower performing, alternative to Qualcomm's modems, the result would be more aggressively priced better alternatives to Intel's offerings from Qualcomm/Broadcom, wiping Intel out of the market. On paper, this is a lose/lose for Intel and even for Apple. The lower prices would flow to Apple competitors as well, lowering the price of competing phones. So, Apple would not get a lasting benefit either.

Rob Enderle