historical Quotes

The Internet? We are not interested in it

DOS is ugly and interferes with users' experience.

Microsoft Products are Generally Bug Free

The next generation of interesting software will be done on the Macintosh, not the IBM PC.

We will never make a 32-bit operating system.

The thing about HD-DVD that is attractive to Microsoft is that it's very pro-consumer in letting you copy all movies up onto the hard disk.

I believe OS/2 is destined to be the most important operating system, and possibly program, of all time. As the successor to DOS, which has over 10,000,000 systems in use, it creates incredible opportunities for everyone involved with PCs.

(In response to Java) Anybody who thinks a little 9,000-line program that's distributed free and can be cloned by anyone is going to affect anything we do at Microsoft has his head screwed on wrong.

I keep bumping into that silly quotation attributed to me that says 640K of memory is enough. There's never a citation; the quotation just floats like a rumor, repeated again and again.

The internet is just a passing fad.

There's nobody getting rich writing software that I know of.

Spam will be a thing of the past in two years' time.