To give of yourself is much more important than giving a gift you can buy.
In the end, I hope there’s a little note somewhere that says I designed a good computer.
I thought Microsoft did a lot of things that were good and right building parts of the browser into the operating system. Then I thought it out and came up with reasons why it was a monopoly.
I think Apple’s revenge is just the fact that Windows, you know, PCs all became Macintoshes in a way.
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.
Our first computers were born not out of greed or ego, but in the revolutionary spirit of helping common people rise above the most powerful institutions.
We truly could have used the later Jobs in earlier years at Apple, is what I feel.
Even if you do something that others might consider wrong, you should at least be willing to talk about it and tell your parents what you’re doing because you believe it’s right.
With the cloud, you don’t own anything. You already signed it away.
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.
The more we thought, the more they all sounded boring compared to Apple. You didn’t have to have a real specific reason for choosing a name when you were a little tiny company of two people; you choose any name you want.
It would be nice to design a real briefcase – you open it up and it’s your computer but it also stores your books.
Artists work best alone. Work alone.
Rockets are bad technology. iPhones are good technology.
The Homebrew Computer Club was the highlight of my life. I was too shy to ever talk in the club meeting, but the way that I could communicate sometimes was by doing good designs. I was very skilled at a certain type of circuit design.
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.
What I was proud of was that I used very few parts to build a computer that could actually speak words on a screen and type words on a keyboard and run a programming language that could play games. And I did all this myself.
Neither one of us could be sure we’d get our money back on this investment, but we just wanted to have company of our own for once because we were best friends.
My whole life had been designing computers I could never build.
Steve Jobs had very strong feelings about what makes a company great, what makes products great. He more or less chose Tim Cook to be in that role, in that position.