I don't really know that anybody's proven that a random collection of people doing their own thing actually creates value.
Steven Anthony Ballmer
I think it would be absolutely reckless and irresponsible for anyone to try and break up Microsoft.
Steven Anthony Ballmer
There's no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance.
Steven Anthony Ballmer
I've got my kids brainwashed: You don't use Google, and you don't use an iPod.
Steven Anthony Ballmer
Linux is not in the public domain. Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches. That's the way that the license works.
Steven Anthony Ballmer
We've had DRM in Windows for years. The most common format of music on an iPod is "stolen".
Steven Anthony Ballmer
When we tell the story about what's happening today with browsers ten years from now, I want the thing that replaces Windows to be Windows. I don't want to wake up in a position one day where the guys at Netscape say, "Isn't Windows just that little thing that we use to put up menus and draw lines? Let's just write our own and suck it up into our client."
Steven Anthony Ballmer