Oct 1,1985 - "Steve made it very difficult [for Apple employees] to be part of a team approach that a company of Apple's size really needs to have. I mix those skills somewhat better than Steve.'' Bill Gates, in The Seattle Times
July 10,1989 - "Microsoft does not want us to succeed, and they are not going to help us." Steve Jobs, in Computer System News
Nov 27,1989 - "If Steve's [NeXT Computer] machine is successful, I will say it will confuse me." Bill Gates, in Computer System News
May 25,1993 - "Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me," he says. "Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful . . . that's what matters to me."Steve Jobs, comparing his innovation to Gates' in The Wall Street Journal
'You can always tell whether you're on a Mac or on a PC. Just stick your applications in there and see whether they'll run.''Bill Gates, in the San Jose Mercury News
June 1996 - "The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste, they have absolutely no taste.... I guess I am saddened, not by Microsoft's success - I have no problem with their success, they've earned their success for the most part. I have a problem with the fact that they just make really third-rate products." Steve Jobs, appearing on the PBS program "Triumph of the Nerds"
Jan 12,1997 - ''I wish him the best, I really do. I just think he and Microsoft are a bit narrow. He'd be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once or gone off to an ashram when he was younger.'' Steve Jobs in The New York Times
May 12,2005 - "As good as Apple may be, I don't believe the success of the iPod is sustainable in the long run. You can make parallels with computers: Apple was very strong in this field before, with its Macintosh and its graphics user interface - like the iPod today - and then lost its position."Bill Gates, to Reuters
Aug 7,2006 - "Our friends in Redmond, they spend over $5 billion in R&D, but these days they just try to copy Google and Apple. So I guess it's a good example of how money isn't everything."Steve Jobs, speaking at Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference
Feb 1, 2007 - "Nowadays, security guys break the Mac every single day. Every single day, they come out with a total exploit, your machine can be taken over totally. I dare anybody to do that once a month on the Windows machine." Bill Gates, in Newsweek
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