Steve Ballmer Quotes

There's no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance.

All the consumer market mojo is with Apple and to a lesser extent BlackBerry. And yet, the real market momentum with operators and the real market momentum with device manufacturers seems to primarily be with Windows Mobile and Android.

We are in the Windows era — we were, we are, and we always will be.

I don't think anyone has done a [tablet] product that I see customers wanting.

Computer science is the operating system for all innovation.

I think fully accepting that things are not the way they need to be, and going to work on those issues in a way that people understand you are serious about, as opposed to the tech industry generally appearing arrogant, I understand that.

Google’s not a real company. It's a house of cards.

You can have an Apple in the phone business, or a RIM, and they can do very well, but when 1.3 billion phones a year are all smart, the software that's gonna be most popular in those phones is gonna be software that's sold by somebody who doesn't make their own phones.

I think it would be absolutely reckless and irresponsible for anyone to try and break up Microsoft.

My dad said, "What the heck is software?" and my mom said, "Why would a person ever need a computer?" They said, "OK, OK, we hear you, but if it doesn't work out, you'll go back to business school right?" And I said "Right," and I never came back.

I don't really know that anybody's proven that a random collection of people doing their own thing actually creates value.

[Apple and RIM] are probably restricted, in some sense, to a certain maximum. … If you want to reach more people than that, you sort-of have to separate the hardware and the software issue.

I've got my kids brainwashed: You don't use Google, and you don't use an iPod.

Most people still steal music.

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