Our friends up north (Microsoft) spend over five billion dollars on research and development and all they seem to do is copy Google and Apple. WWDC, August 2006.

Microsoft has had clear competitors in the past. It’s a good thing we have museums to document that.

I wish him [Bill Gates] the best, I really do. I just think he and Microsoft are a bit narrow. He'd be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once or gone off to an ashram when he was younger.

Microsoft looks at new ideas, they don't evaluate whether the idea will move the industry forward, they ask, 'how will it help us sell more copies of Windows?' April 30, 1998.

Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely unintentional side effect.

Before Paul and I started the company, we had been involved in some large-scale software projects that were real disasters. They just kept pouring people in, and nobody knew how they were going to stabilize the project. We swore to ourselves that we would do better