Scott McNealy Quotations

Get the best people and train them well.

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

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.

You already have zero privacy - get over it.

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.

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.

W2K will be a bigger disaster than Y2K.

Large enterprises cannot stop investing in this Internet technology, ... They do so at great peril.

I think the stock market is never rational at any moment in time, but over (long periods of) time, it is.

Over the last 15 years, Ed has worked tirelessly to lead Sun through several transformations and to the forefront of the computer industry,

Today's important decision confirms what almost everybody in the world knows - Microsoft is a monopoly that has acted illegally. The Justice Department and the states deserve immense credit for putting together a case that so clearly showed Microsoft's true colors.

We're upping the ante in the server and network computing market, ... Our R&D investment is delivering products that are setting new industry benchmarks, and providing customers with more innovation and choice. With a billion people on the global network today, and millions more joining each week, Sun is redefining the market in the Participation Age. Sun is delivering significant performance gains, while helping customers reduce power consumption and overall costs.

Microsoft has a monopoly in computer operating systems, ... Microsoft the gateway to the Internet.

Microsoft is a monopoly -- that's pure and simple in my view. There's no question that Microsoft is able to breach a contract because they have monopoly power. I believe that would be a very positive step forward in the Microsoft case,

Those guys at the Fed blew it. They went the other way, right in the teeth of rising energy costs, ... We've had government overspending and overcharging at the same time. That's a hard hit.

There are some sorts of things that individual companies or individuals can't handle, like national defense or the court system, or whatever. That's why we have the Sherman Antitrust and monopoly laws on the books, because the government has to step in when a company is not operating under market discipline.

This quarter we kicked some major bottom out there,

We are confident in our product strategy, and as momentum behind our execution builds, we are beginning to fire on all cylinders.

When companies want to create their online presence, what we're trying to say is we're that little piece in there that makes it happen,

We see some predatory pricing practices that only monopolists could engage in,

The team really delivered. Not only did we successfully bring on line our new ERP systems, but we also introduced new products and partnerships during the quarter.

The technology industry is consolidating. People are trying to figure out who the winners are and who the losers are.

Without the dot it doesn't happen. We're the dot. We're the way you get on the Internet. I never really thought about it that much but the whole effort is to affiliate ourselves with companies that want to dot com their companies. We've kind of made a verb out of dot com.

As a pioneer company providing technologies that have led to a digital economy, we can't ignore the difficult issues raised by it. We must tackle these issues -- from encryption to taxation to protecting privacy -- head on if we want to ensure a fair, competitive environment.

As we move into large servers with thin clients, these large servers require powerful and high-speed open storage systems. Encore has great technology there,

Internet technology spending is highly effective in driving productivity. Companies know that if they hold back now, their competitors are going to get in and invest, and these companies will end up as the high-cost producers. They can't afford that,

They were arguing about this 500 years ago, they will be arguing about it 500 years from now.

It's a natural for these two companies to work well together,

You can speculate all day long about all the different ways we can go and work together. They're all legitimate speculation, ... We only want to talk about what we're talking about here now ... we expect more.

a lot of money flowing both ways if we do this right.

It's absolutely stifling what Microsoft does when they acquire a little company and bundle that technology into Windows and eliminate all further innovation outside of Microsoft, in that particular area.

I don't look at this as a battle between two companies, ... I look at this as a battle between the service provider and the systems administrator.

I don't want to reveal too much, but let's just say we put the Gin in Ginger, ... it isn't what you know, but whether or not people perceive that you know.

Technology has the shelf life of a banana.

If everyone thinks you're doing the right thing, then everyone would be doing it. Have a controversial strategy.

We believe we're moving out of the Ice Age, the Iron Age, the Industrial Age, the Information Age, to the participation age. You get on the Net and you do stuff. You IM (instant message), you blog, you take pictures, you publish, you podcast, you transact, you distance learn, you telemedicine. You are participating on the Internet, not just viewing stuff. We build the infrastructure that goes in the data center that facilitates the participation age. We build that big friggin' Webtone switch. It has security, directory, identity, privacy, storage, compute, the whole Web services stack.

Without choice, you have no innovation. Without innovation, you have nothing.

Computers shouldn't be unusable. You don't need to know how to work a telephone switch to make a phone call, or how to use the Hoover Dam to take a shower, or how to work a nuclear-power plant to turn on the lights.

Putting Windows [3.11] on top of DOS is like putting whipped cream on a road apple [horse poop].

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.

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.

Who cares who's captain after the wings have fallen off.

I can't figure the stock market out. I think it's wacky. I have done well with a long-term strategy and will continue being a long-term investor.

We think computing ought to be like a telephone or a water tap or a light switch.

In a world without fences, who needs Gates?

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

Every time you turn on your new car, you're turning on 20 microprocessors. Every time you use an ATM, you're using a computer. Every time I use a settop box or game machine, I'm using a computer. The only computer you don't know how to work is your Microsoft computer, right?

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.

When computers (people) are networked, their power multiplies geometrically. Not only can people share all that information inside their machines, but they can reach out and instantly tap the power of other machines (people), essentially making the entire network their computer.

Do I have a problem with Larry Ellison buying Sun? No, that's part of the capitalist system. As soon as we go public we're for sale, that's part of the deal. And do I have a problem with him exercising his intellectual property rights? No, I don't have a problem with that. Would it be how we necessarily ran and operated? Obviously not.

We have an opportunity to improve productivity and cut costs while growing our way to a better and a more comfortable operating environment. I don't think anyone feels comfortable about bumping around where we are today.

When Steve Ballmer calls me wacko, I consider that a compliment.

This Windows 95 hairball has become so big, so unmanageable, so hard to use, so hard to configure, so hard to keep up and running, so hard to keep secure. Windows 95 is a great gift to give your kid this Christmas because it will keep your kid fascinated for months trying to get it up and running and trying to figure out how to use it.