Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual - not how to use it but why, when, and for what.

An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.

If you're utopian, you're never satisfied.

When the Mac first came out, Newsweek asked me what I [thought] of it. I said: Well, it's the first personal computer worth criticizing. So at the end of the presentation, Steve came up to me and said: Is the iPhone worth criticizing? And I said: Make the screen five inches by eight inches, and you'll rule the world.

People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.

The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.