I didn't despise Bill for destroying Netscape, which wasn't very nice or legal, for that matter. Bill just calculated he could smash his competitors by breaking the law and get away it. Who knows? Maybe he can. But when Bill defended Microsoft's murderous behavior by saying, 'All I ask is the right to innovate,' that kind of pushed me over the edge. Netscape did the innovation, Bill—that's why you killed them! All you did was copy the innovation and destroy the innovator. To kill the innovator in the name of innovation was such an incredible lie, such a cynical piece of deception, such hyper hypocrisy, I just couldn't stand it. If Bill had said, 'We killed Netscape because they were in our way; they weren't tough enough to survive, so fuck 'em. Hey, Andreessen [Marc Andreessen founded Netscape when he was twenty-one], welcome to the software industry, punk. I've got a little present for you; it's a pine box and a bullet with your name on it. That'll teach little kids to stay the fuck out of my neighborhood. Mess with Microsoft, you die.' Okay, cool. That's still not very nice, but at least it's honest.

I found spending time with Bill intellectually interesting but emotionally exhausting; he has absolutely no sense of humor. I think he finds humor an utter waste of time an unnecessary distraction from the business at hand