I feel certain that the personal computer is as revolutionary in terms of the way it will change the way we work, learn, and entertain ourselves as any of these previous advances.

I don't think I would have spent time learning about the immune system if understanding vaccines weren't something I considered very important.

The only big companies that succeed will be those that obsolete their own products before somebody else does.

Apple has always leveraged technologies that the PC industry has driven to critical mass - the bus structures, the graphics cards, the peripherals, the connection networks, things like that - so they're kind of in the PC ecosystem and kind of not.

There is a difference between what technology enables and what historical business practices enable.

I've always been interested in science - one of my favourite books is James Watson's 'Molecular Biology of the Gene.'

If you give people tools, and they use their natural abilities and their curiosity, they will develop things in ways that will surprise you very much beyond what you might have expected.