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6. “I have four words for you: I. Love. This. Company. Yeagh!” [That’s actually five – Ed.] [YouTube link below.]

7. "Fucking Eric Schmidt is a fucking pussy. I'm going to fucking bury that guy, I have done it before, and I will do it again. I'm going to fucking kill Google." Allegedly said to Mark Lucovsky, a Microsoft distinguished engineer, when he told Ballmer he was defecting to Google. Ballmer also allegedly threw a chair across the room, hitting a desk.

8. “I have never, honestly, thrown a chair in my life.” To an audience at Gartner's Symposium/ITxpo in Orlando, Florida (see quote above).

9. “Google's not a real company. It's a house of cards.” Also allegedly said to Lucovsky (see quote above).

10. “Come ooon. Come ooon. Get uuuup. Give it up for meeee. Woooooo.” More “emotion” as Ballmer takes to the stage, to the sound of Gloria Estefan’s ‘Get on Your Feet’. [YouTube link below]

11. “I don't know what a monopoly is until somebody tells me.”

12. “I heard an interview where Steve Jobs said -- I don’t know if it was me personally or Microsoft in general -- that we don’t have good taste. I think we have the taste that has appealed to over a billion people on the planet and Steve’s got taste that has appealed to about 35 million people on the planet. Hey -- they’re different.”

13. “What we've gone through in the last several years has caused some people to question, 'can we trust Microsoft?'”

14. "We don’t have a monopoly. We have market share. There’s a difference."

15. "My children - in many dimensions they’re as poorly behaved as many other children, but at least on this dimension I’ve got my kids brainwashed: You don’t use Google, and you don’t use an iPod."

16. "I think it would be absolutely reckless and irresponsible for anyone to try and break up Microsoft."

17. "I'm going to trust Vista on day one. I bet most people in this audience will trust it day one -- on their home computer!" Ballmer jokes whether enterprises will trust Vista from launch, at a Gartner Symposium back in 2005.

18. "How are we going to compete with Google? The good, old-fashioned way: with innovation. There are many things — who knows — Google may or may not do. If you read the papers, other than curing cancer, there are many things Google is going to do."

19. "There is such an overvaluation of technology stocks that it is absurd. I would include our stock in that category." Ballmer comments on the dot-com bubble, back in 1999. It burst not long after, proving him right.

20. “I'm not sure blogs are necessarily the best place to get a pulse on anything. People want to blog for a variety of reasons, and that may or may not be representative.”

Here are a few Ballmer YouTube moments:

The infamous ‘developers’ enthusiasm.

We’re gonna’ keep coming and coming and coming...

I have four words for you…

Come ooon. Come ooonh. Get uuuup…

The Hungarian egg-throwing incident -- Ballmer ducks successfully.

Disagree with my choice? Any to add? Drop me a comment.