Steve Ballmer said one wise thing in an interview with him I read a couple of days ago: “We don’t talk about quarters!”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJm8fZ6WS5Y
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CRt-h4IrEQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odY8nff3h0w