Steve Ballmer Technology Quotations

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.

My industry colleagues and I remain eager to work with the Department to support the homeland security mission. We look forward to working with you to pursue opportunities for technology to make cyberspace, and the homeland, more secure.

I've been around IBM, and I saw how IBM overdid it. Maybe we will, maybe we won't--but we have strategy control, we have technology control, we've got financial control.

I do think that there is such a strong interest in demand for improvements in information technology that we will continue to see a pretty strong information technology sector, no matter what happens with some of these global economic factors,

Accessible design is good design - it benefits people who don't have disabilities as well as people who do. Accessibility is all about removing barriers and providing the benefits of technology for everyone.

In a sense technology is a tool of sort of individual choice, individual creativity, individual empowerment, individual access. My kids will never understand that it used to be kind of hard to access and find things, and know what the world knows and see what the world sees. Yet it becomes easier and easier every day.

The lifeblood of our business is that R&D spend. There's nothing that flows through a pipe or down a wire or anything else. We have to continuously create new innovation that lets people do something they didn't think they could do the day before.

I want people to understand the amazing, positive way our software can make leisure time more enjoyable, and work and businesses more successful.

There's a lot of Google fascination out there and we share it, and we're going to compete, we're going to compete very, very hard.

There is such an overvaluation of technology stocks that it is absurd. I would include our stock in that category. It is bad for the long-term worth of the economy.