Steve Ballmer Quotes

I became convinced that the whole essence of the computer revolution is interactivity. That was very early in my career. At the time I did that it was heresy.

My dad got me an iMac, and I spent my whole childhood with my eyes glued to it. I was technically savvy and knew how to make it work for me.

[Computer science] is not really about computers and it's not about computers in the same sense that physics is not really about particle accelerators, and biology is not about microscopes and Petri dishes... and geometry isn't really about using surveying instruments.

Computers are merely ingenious devices to fulfill unimportant functions. The computer revolution is an explosion of nonsense.

This is a software-powered world.

I had a running compiler and nobody would touch it. They told me computers could only do arithmetic.

For a long time it puzzled me how something so expensive, so leading edge, could be so useless. And then it occurred to me that a computer is a stupid machine with the ability to do incredibly smart things, while computer programmers are smart people with the ability to do incredibly stupid things. They are, in short, a perfect match.

For those who wish to stay and work in computer science or technology, fields badly in need of their services, let’s roll out the welcome mat.

Technology just means information technology.

When people think about computer science, they imagine people with pocket protectors and thick glasses who code all night.

At Microsoft, the magic of software is used to take on very interesting challenges.

I've been programming computers since elementary school, where they taught us, and I stuck with computer science through high school and college.

When the tech geeks talk, I pay close attention.

Even though most people won't be directly involved with programming, everyone is affected by computers, so an educated person should have a good understanding of how computer hardware, software, and networks operate.

When you learn to code, it opens up for you to learn many other things.

I just think there's a general interest in the world of computers.

Information technology is at the core of how you do your business and how your business model itself evolves.

I'm into computers and have been for a while.

I've always had a passion for the tech industry, and I like to help build interesting products.

I think tech is driving most of the innovation and will continue to for a very, very long time.

I despise computers in many ways. I think they’re hopelessly underevolved and overrated.

Microsoft was founded with a vision of a computer on every desk, and in every home. We've never wavered from that vision.

I am a programmer.

We're losing track of the vastness of the potential for computer science. We really have to revive the beautiful intellectual joy of it, as opposed to the business potential.

There's my education in computers, right there; this is the whole thing, everything I took out of a book.