"I'm just an observer of Java, and where Microsoft wants to go with C# is too early to tell"

"John D. Rockefeller wanted to dominate oil, but Microsoft wants it all, you name it: cable, media, banking, car dealerships"

"If Microsoft ever does applications for Linux it means I've won"

"Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems"

"I think Microsoft will have to change. I think that the business of Microsoft, the company of Microsoft, is going to continue to succeed. But I think the business model of Microsoft is going to have to change"

"Microsoft is not about greed. It's about innovation and fairness"

"At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top - I'm afraid that's not quite right"

"I don't try to be a threat to MicroSoft, mainly because I don't really see MS as competition. Especially not Windows-the goals of Linux and Windows are simply so different"

"Microsoft has had two goals in the last 10 years. One was to copy the Mac, and the other was to copy Lotus' success in the spreadsheet - basically, the applications business. And over the course of the last 10 years, Microsoft accomplished both of those goals. And now they are completely lost"

"With our technology, with objects, literally three people in a garage can blow away what 200 people at Microsoft can do. Literally can blow it away. Corporate America has a need that is so huge and can save them so much money, or make them so much money, or cost them so much money if they miss it, that they are going to fuel the object revolution"

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