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 was lucky to be in the right place at the right time. But many others were also in the same place. The difference was that I took action.

Patience is a key element of success.

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.

In the same way that when the car got going, people thought it would be an electric car, people thought it would be a steam car.

I don't think you're as capable of handling lack of sleep or whatever challenges you throw at your body as you get older. However, I never missed a day of work.

Only through focus can you do world-class things, no matter how capable you are.