My parents thought I'd lost my mind to drop out of Stanford Business School to go join some company that made software.

我父母认为我从斯坦福商学院,辍学去一家软件公司工作根本是疯了。

斯坦福公开课 - 微软CEO-Steve.Ballmer谈科技的未来课程节选

Now Microsoft is sort of a funny place, we've got these big businesses but in the software business big businesses need to be constantly recreated.

现今的微软是非常有意思的地方，我们运行着庞大的生意，但是在软件交易上,大宗交易更像是消遣。

斯坦福公开课 - 微软CEO-Steve.Ballmer谈科技的未来课程节选

In our business, you got to be inventing new things because software doesn't wear out, it doesn't break, or at least if it breaks it was broken when you finished it, it doesn't break over time the way physical goods do.

在我们行业，你需要不断发明新事物,因为软件并不会磨损，不会坏，或者至少如果坏了,也是在你运行完之后，它并不像物理上的东西会随着时间磨损。

斯坦福公开课 - 微软CEO-Steve.Ballmer谈科技的未来课程节选