A lot of hacking is playing with other people, you know, getting them to do strange things.

Some great people are leaders and others are more lucky, in the right place at the right time. I'd put myself in the latter category. But I'd never call myself a normal designer of anything.

I'd learned enough about circuitry in high school electronics to know how to drive a TV and get it to draw - shapes of characters and things.

I'm surprised at the extent of the bigotry. But it really plays out when companies or schools take a side and prohibit the other platform at all. We Mac users should be good even when the other side is bad. We should do what we can to accept the other platforms.

All the best people in life seem to like LINUX.

In some parts of life, like mathematics and science, yeah, I was a genius. I would top all the top scores you could ever measure it by.

Everything we did we were setting the tone for the world.

It would be nice to design a real briefcase - you open it up and it's your computer but it also stores your books.

It's just not right that so many things don't work when they should. I don't think that will change for a long time.

My goal wasn't to make a ton of money. It was to build good computers.

I worked with such concentration and focus and I had hundreds of obscure engineering or programming things in my head. I was just real exceptional in that way.

Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window.

If I designed a computer with 200 chips, I tried to design it with 150. And then I would try to design it with 100. I just tried to find every trick I could in life to design things real tiny.

Steve Jobs didn't really set the direction of my Apple I and Apple II designs but he did the more important part of turning them into a product that would change the world. I don't deny that.

Teachers started recognizing me and praising me for being smart in science and that made me want to be even smarter in science!