Quotes from Scott McNealy

W2K will be a bigger disaster than Y2K.

The only thing that I'd rather own than Windows is English, because then I could charge you two hundred and forty-nine dollars for the right to speak it.

Technology has the shelf life of a banana.

Microsoft is now talking about the digital nervous system... I guess I would be nervous if my system was built on their technology too.

This is a big deal. It's a fairly natural partnership; it shouldn't surprise people, ... We're working on bringing this network-is-the-computer, Net services environment.

The only thing I'd rather own than Windows is English. Then I'd be able to charge you an upgrade fee every time I add new letters like N and T.

Get the best people and train them well.

The only thing that I'd rather own than Windows is English, because then I could charge you two hundred and forty-nine dollars for the right to speak it.

Only a monopolist could study a business and ruin it by giving away products.

If I could embed a locator chip in my child right now, I know I would do that. Some people call that Big Brother; I call it being a father.

You already have zero privacy - get over it.

The utility model of computing - computing resources delivered over the network in much the same way that electricity or telephone service reaches our homes and offices today - makes more sense than ever.

Only a monopolist could study a business and ruin it by giving away products.

Get the best people and train them well.

The best decision is the right decision. The next best decision is the wrong decision. The worst decision is no decision.

Yes, we have a dress code. You have to dress.

In a world without fences, who needs Gates?

Probably the most dangerous and powerful industrialist of our age. [About Bill Gates]