[card_zero]

I found the idea of a third thing in that list particularly persuasive.

[thaumasiotes]

You should. It was important in the classical study of rhetoric, given the name "tricolon".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isocolon#Tricolon

[card_zero]

Which (as mentioned there) has evolved into a form where all three things are the same: money, money, money, location, location, location, education, education, education, and of course developers, developers, developers.

[thaumasiotes]

> and of course developers, developers, developers

Not quite; the Ballmer quote has him repeat the word in what sounds to me like one block of six followed by two blocks of four.