Steve Ballmer

The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn't think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential.

I think our leadership team is a highly accountable leadership team.

Great companies in the way they work, start with great leaders.

Accessible design is good design.

We don't have a monopoly. We have market share. There's a difference.

What we've gone through in the last several years has caused some people to question 'Can we trust Microsoft?'

I come back to the same thing: We've got the greatest pipeline in the company's history in the next 12 months, and we've had the most amazing financial results possible over the last five years, and we're predicting being back at double-digit revenue growth in fiscal year '06.