If you're not failing 90% of the time, then you're probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.

As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.

The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide, and to the extent that we do not violate any known laws of the universe, we can probably make it work the way that we want to.

The result is - document destruction - we're really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we're going to come to. There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.

By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books. I knew in the first grade that they were lying to me because I had already been exposed to other points of view. School is basically about one point of view -- the one the teacher has or the textbooks have. They don't like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle. Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.

We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.

The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.