10 Incredibly Stupid Quotes By Steve Ballmer

Steve Ballmer was the CEO of Microsoft from 2000 up until February of 2014. If you didn’t know he is quite the eccentric guy. Throughout his career has has said some pretty outstanding and rather funny things in interviews and presentations. I’m sure there are a whole lot we could list here, but here are 10 Incredibly Stupid Quotes By Steve Ballmer, enjoy!

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10 Incredibly Stupid Quotes By Steve Ballmer

1. “I’m going to f*cking bury that guy, I have done it before, and I will do it again. I’m going to f*cking kill Google.” (Sydney Morning Herald)

2. “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.” (The Register)

3. “Developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers…. (Watch it on YouTube)

4. “There’s no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance. It’s a $500 subsidized item.” (USA Today)

5. “I don’t know what a monopoly is until somebody tells me,” (USA Today)

6. “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.” (Fortune)

7. “We’ve had DRM in Windows for years. The most common format of music on an iPod is “stolen”.” (The Register)

8. “Google’s not a real company. It’s a house of cards.” (Seattle Times)

9. “You don’t need to be a computer scientist to use a Windows Phone. I think you do to use an Android Phone… It is hard for me to be excited about the Android phones.” (Web 2.0 Conference 2011)

10. “We [Microsoft] don’t have a monopoly. We have market share. There’s a difference.” (Unknown)

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