I absolutely do not need a salary or a job, that’s the last thing I need.
When you stop and think about it, a smartphone is basically a whistle you can carry.
But I know newspapers. They have the first amendment and they can tell any lie knowing it’s a lie and they’re protected if the person’s famous or it’s a company.
I hate to say it, and Apple never likes it, but I love anything that’s hacker oriented. I don’t like passing it onto others, or getting things for free. I don’t like stealing music one bit, at all...
Somebody who’s designing something for himself has at least got a market of one that he’s very close to.
Steve Jobs doesn’t use a Mac, and won’t, because it’s too crappy in his opinion.
When we first started with Apple computers, it was my dream that everyone would learn to program, and that was how they’d use their computer.
I went drinking with Gray Powell and all I got was a lousy iPhone prototype.
If you try to make such projects, unseen by others, as perfect as any human could, you’ll develop skills that other professionals don’t have.
I think everything I have done in my life, my reasons at the time were right no matter how things worked out.
You’d better have the technology knowledge. I really urge you not to think you can start a whole company and business with just ideas on paper, because you’ll end up owning so few of those ideas.
I read Google News and use NetNewsWire to keep up with general and tech news.
It’s funny how when you’re up so late at night for so long your mind can get into these creative places, the kind of creative places that come to you when you’re halfway between asleep and awake.
Atari is a very sad story.
You know what, Steve Jobs is real nice to me. He lets me be an employee and that’s one of the biggest honors of my life.
Did you really invent the computer, or am I being pranked right now?
You should stay closely connected to the technology when you start your company.
Teachers started recognizing me and praising me for being smart in science and that made me want to be even smarter in science!
I think that the anti-Microsoft sentiment is simply due to their having been so successful selling a lot of crap.
What Steve Jobs and I did-and at the same time Bill Gates and Paul Allen did-we had no savings accounts, no friends that could loan us money. But we had ideas, and I wanted all my life to be a part of a revolution.