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Steven Anthony Ballmer (/ˈbɔːlmər/; born March 24, 1956) is an American businessman, investor and philanthropist who was the chief executive officer of Microsoft from January 2000 to February 2014, and is the current owner of the Los Angeles Clippers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). As of January 2018[update], his personal wealth is estimated at US$38.7 billion, ranking him the 21st richest person in the world.

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Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches.

Attaches, Cancer, Intellectual, Linux, Property

I would love to see all open-source innovation happen on top of Windows.

Innovation, See, Source, Window, Windows

The Internet Was Designed For The PC. The Internet Is Not Designed For The iPhone

Designed, Internet, Iphone

Most people still steal music.

Music, People, Steal, Stealing, Stills

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.

Business, Gonna, Phone, Phones, Smart, Years

In terms of the public positioning of the company, Satya's [Nadella] done a very good job. He sort of pivoted in a way that I don't think would have been possible for me to do even if I'd seen it that way, to really talk about this mobile-first, cloud-first world.

Clouds, Jobs, Nadella, Possible, Thinking, World

I meet with Satya [Nadella] what probably amounts to four or five times a year - either to brainstorm something or just as a shareholder, we'll sit down and chat. That's always quite helpful for me and hopefully him in terms of thinking things through. I still have a number of friends and colleagues who occasionally want to brainstorm or chat about something, and that's always fun.

Fun, Numbers, Shareholder, Things, Thinking

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

Developers, Stupid

Let's face it, the Internet was designed for the PC. The Internet is not designed for the iPhone. That's why they've got 75,000 applications - they're all trying to make the Internet look decent on the iPhone.

Applications, Internet, Iphone, Looks, Trying

So, I think the output of our innovation is great. We have a culture of self-improvement. I know we can continue to improve. There is no issue. But at the same time, our absolute level of output is fantastic.

Issues, Know, Same, Self, Thinking, Time

Eventually the Internet will be accessed by PC, television, and wireless devices.

Devices, Internet, Television, Wireless

I love the fact that Satya Nadella's checked the checkbox for cross-platform for a number of our services. I still think it's very important to do the right kind of innovative integration across Windows and our hardware platforms with our cloud services. I think the company's doing a lot of good stuff. Real competition in AWS. Real competition in terms of the clients, particularly from a hardware perspective, there's also [competition] from Chrome. But all in all pretty good.

Numbers, Pretty, Real, Satya, Stuff, Thinking

I didn't leave business school to go bankrupt.

Bankrupt, Business, Business School, Leave, School

If you look at companies with upside potential, Twitter's right there. They've established a brand in a world where it's extremely difficult to establish a brand. It's a global brand, people recognize it, people want to let you know what their Twitter handles are, etc.

Difficult, Etc, Looks, People, Upside, World

The lifeblood of our business is that R&D spend. There's nothing that flows through a pipe or down a wire or anything else. We have to continuously create new innovation that lets people do something they didn't think they could do the day before.

Business, Down, Lifeblood, Technology, Thinking, Wire

I'm very, very bullish about our prospects, and as I tell our board, as I tell our employees, this is the time to invest. There's so much opportunity. Let's just invest in that opportunity, and really get after it.

Board, Boards, Economy, Opportunity, Tell

There are other ways I think of myself as spoiling myself. . . I. . . get a massage once a week. Other people can, I didn't used to, and I can now.

People, Thinking, Used, Way, Ways

This is all about having great leaders who can drive agile innovation and agile decision-making.

Decision, Drive, Having, Innovation, Leader

I don't have a lot of experience running basketball teams. I'm just trying to get smart enough even to understand everything going on. As much of a fan as I am, I haven't played the game since ninth-grade. If you told me when I bought the team that there were 12 kinds of pick and rolls, I would've told you I have no frickin' clue about that.

Basketball, Everything, Frickin, Running, Smart, Team

No. 1 thing is that life is just not as interrupt-driven as when you're running a company.

Driven, Life, Life Is, Running, Thing

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