If you love what you do and are willing to do what it takes, it’s within your reach.
Creative things have to sell to get acknowledged as such.
And Communist Russia was so bad because they followed their people, they snooped on them, they arrested them, they put them in secret prisons, they disappeared them.
When you’re providing a service to somebody, you’re the guy they always call when something’s wrong.
I had a TV set and a typewriter and that made me think a computer should be laid out like a typewriter with a video screen.
The biggest benefit in my life comes from my Segway, which I use everywhere I am. If I’m going to San Antonio, for example, I’ll load it in the car and just go everywhere with it.
Not everything in life can go perfectly according to plan. I mean I didn’t keep every girlfriend I ever had.
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.
Every dream I’ve ever had in life has come true ten times over.
I have such a crowded life and crowded schedule. When people send me a link with a gadget, I’ll look at it and buy it if it looks interesting, but I don’t have time to check out everything I’d like to.
Everything we did we were setting the tone for the world.
At our computer club, we talked about it being a revolution. Computers were going to belong to everyone, and give us power, and free us from the people who owned computers and all that stuff.
My goal wasn’t to make a ton of money. It was to build good computers.
For some reason I get this key position of being one of two people that started the company that started the revolution.
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.
You need the kind of objectivity that makes you forget everything you’ve heard, clear the table, and do a factual study like a scientist would.
The easier it is to do something, the harder it is to change the way you do it.
The best things that capture your imagination are ones you hadn’t thought of before and that aren’t talked about in the news all the time.
I have always respected education, which is why I actually went back secretly and taught school for eight years.
I absolutely do not need a salary or a job, that’s the last thing I need.