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

If everyone thinks you're doing the right thing, then everyone would be doing it. Have a controversial strategy.

The best decision is the right decision. The next best decision is the wrong decision. The worst decision is no decision.

Every time you turn on your new car, you're turning on 20 microprocessors. Every time you use an ATM, you're using a computer. Every time I use a settop box or game machine, I'm using a computer. The only computer you don't know how to work is your Microsoft computer, right?

We think computing ought to be like a telephone or a water tap or a light switch.

Who cares who's captain after the wings have fallen off.

Putting Windows [3.11] on top of DOS is like putting whipped cream on a road apple [horse poop].