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American businessman, former chief executive officer of Microsoft

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Steven Anthony "Steve" Ballmer (born 24 March 1956) is an American businessman and investor who was the Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft from January 13, 2000, to February 4, 2014.

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

Developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers.

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

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

Linux is not in the public domain. Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches. That's the way that the license works.

Most people still steal music.

We've had DRM in Windows for years. The most common format of music on an iPod is "stolen".

Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! Come on! Get up, get up! Come on! Come on, give it up for me! Whoo! Whoo! Come on! Who said 'sit down'? I have four words for you. I. Love. This. Company. Yes!

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

When we tell the story about what's happening today with browsers ten years from now, I want the thing that replaces Windows to be Windows. I don't want to wake up in a position one day where the guys at Netscape say, "Isn't Windows just that little thing that we use to put up menus and draw lines? Let's just write our own and suck it up into our client."