People need to understand that the technology is for them. It's not to them. It's not over them. People still sometimes want to be led a little too much.

It looks simple to come up with a tablet that works, but it is not, ... In order to have the power and portability you need, you need power. The screen is the part of the device that uses the most power.

But there is a corollary to freedom and that's personal responsibility, and the real challenge is how you generate that personal responsibility without imposing it.

I would much rather see responsibilities exercised by individuals than have them imposed by the government.

Listening to other companies' customers is the best way to gain market share, while listening to the visionaries is the best way to create new markets.

I am not in favor of immortality. I believe death for humans is the way of getting rid of accumulated errors - as in trial and error. Without death, the old folks would start to gang up on the babies (the new trials). Immortality --> immortal mistakes.

I became a real free market fanatic. I'm probably less so now than even two or three years ago.