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

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.

Computers shouldn't be unusable. You don't need to know how to work a telephone switch to make a phone call, or how to use the Hoover Dam to take a shower, or how to work a nuclear-power plant to turn on the lights.

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?

The only thing I'd rather own than Windows is English. Then I'd be able to charge you an upgrade fee every time I add new letters like N and T.

Technology has the shelf life of a banana.