Steve Ballmer CEO Microsoftu jest osobą ekscentryczną a wywiady z nim i jego przemówienia zawsze wzbudzają duże zainteresowanie (każdy czeka z czym tym razem wyskoczy Ballmer). Dla jednych jest to postać komiczna i niepoważna inni kochają go za to co i jak mówi.
Oto top 10 cytatów znanego Steve z Microsoftu (bez tłumaczenia ponieważ straciły by one swój urok):
„I’m going to f—ing bury that guy, I have done it before, and I will do it again. I’m going to f—ing kill Google.” [Sydney Morning Herald]
„Developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers…” [Watch at YouTube]
„Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches.” [Chicago Sun-Times]
„My children – in many dimensions they’re as poorly behaved as many other children, but at least on this dimension I’ve got my kids brainwashed: You don’t use Google, and you don’t use an iPod.” [money.cnn.com]
„We’ve had DRM in Windows for years. The most common format of music on an iPod is „stolen”.” [The Register]
„I have never, honestly, thrown a chair in my life.” [CNET News]
„Google’s not a real company. It’s a house of cards.” [Court transcript]
„There’s no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance.” [unsourced]
We don’t have a monopoly. We have market share. There’s a difference. [unsourced]
DRM is the future. [unsourced]
[Źródło : thelinuxway.blogspot.com]