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Steven Anthony Ballmer (born March 24, 1956) is the Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft since January 2000. - "I have four words for you: I love this company, yeah!" (from monkey boy video)
- "Who said sit down?" (Ibid)
- "Developers. Developers. Developers. Developers. Developers. Developers. Developers. Developers. Developers. Developers. Developers. Developers. Developers. Developers. " (Developers conference, on video linked in wikipedia article)
- "We’ve had DRM in Windows for years. The most common format of music on an iPod is 'stolen'" Love DRM or my family starves: why Steve Ballmer doesn't Get It The Register (October 7th, 2004)
- "Most people still steal music" Ballmer talks tech Zdnet (October 5th, 2004)
- "I think it would be absolutely reckless and irresponsible for anyone to try and break up Microsoft." Microsoft's Freedom to Innovate Microsoft (January 17th, 2000)
- "I'm going to fucking bury that guy, I have done it before, and I will do it again," (Referring to Google CEO Eric Schmidt, as recounted in a sworn court declaration by ex-Microsoft employee Mark Lucovsky) [1]
- "I'm going to fucking kill Google." Microsoft CEO: "I'm going to fucking kill Google" smh.com.au (September 3rd 2005)
- "Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches," (Chicago Sun-Times)
- "I have never, honestly, thrown a chair in my life" news.com.com
- "I've got my kids brainwashed: You don't use Google, and you don't use an iPod." money.cnn.com
Quotes Attributed to Steve Ballmer
- "DRM is the future"
- "We don't have a monopoly. We have market share. There's a difference"
- "We can believe that we know where the world should go. But unless we're in touch with our customers, our model of the world can diverge from reality. There's no substitute for innovation, of course, but innovation is no substitute for being in touch, either."
- "Google's not a real company. It's a house of cards." -- From court transcript
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