Microsoft puts Longhorn on the moon

or something like that. Actually, Bill said

developing its next generation of Windows operating system software will cost as much as it cost the United States government to put a man on the Moon (not an actual quote)

as pointed out in an Inquirer.com article, there has been 35 years of inflation since then, so the dollars aren't really comparable. What stands out is that Bill somehow thinks that the two events are somehow comparable.

Yeah, because mankind has never produced a graphical computer operating system before...truly groundbreaking stuff that.

In other quoteable quotes from the same off the cuff interview, Bill answered a question about whether Linux featured in his dreams with

if Alex (the interviewer) meant did Linux comprise a threat, well at one time the Armies of OS/2 said they were coming (not a real quote)