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• [On Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and chairman Bill Gates:] Ballmer and Butt-Head
  • "Javaman: The Adventures of Scott McNealy," Fortune magazine, October 13 1997; quoted in "It's Good to Be the Boss," Fortune, September 19, 2005

• [...] the only thing I'd rather own than [Microsoft] Windows is English or Chinese or Spanish, because then I could charge a $249 right to speak English. And I could charge you an upgrade fee when I add new letters like N and T.
  • Testimony before U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee meeting on market power and structural change in the software industry, 1998-03-03 (transcript at CNN.com)

• You have zero privacy anyway. Get over it.

• What we offer is good enough. It's like my haircut: It ain't pretty, but it's good enough.

• In a world without fences, who needs Gates?

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• Unisys has demonstrated the power of two. That's their stock price today.

• Probably the most dangerous and powerful industrialist of our age. (Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates)

• When Steve Ballmer calls me wacko, I consider that a compliment.

• Only a monopolist could study a business and ruin it by giving away products.

• With Microsoft, the first hit is always free--remember that all your life.

• Microsoft is now talking about the digital nervous system. I guess I would be nervous if my system was built on their technology, too.

• We've got bayonets fixed, and we'll go into any cave no matter how dark and dank it is. And in the air war (against Microsoft to win new developers), we'll go after any developer and not just let them turn over to the dark side.

• Having Microsoft give us advice on open standards is like W. C. Fields giving moral advice to the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.