This is a remarkable set of comments from the leader of a company that is itself in serious strategic difficulty.

Ballmer suggested that Google was growing too fast, and had failed to make a success of efforts to diversify beyond search with ads. He dismissed Google’s various other projects as “cute” to chortles from the assembled business students, and commented that “a random collection of people doing their own thing” might not add value. This was taken by many as a jab at Google’s well-known practice of allowing its engineers to spend 20 per cent of their working hours on personal schemes.

Source: Ballmer says Google growth strategy ‘insane’ | The Register