The news of my pregnancy spread like a forest fire in summer

What makes Steve [Jobs'] methodology different from everyone else's is that he always believed the most important decisions you make are not the things you do, but the things you decide not to do. He's a minimalist.

Microsoft's philosophy is to get it out there and fix it later. Steve [Jobs] would never do that. He doesn't get anything out there until it is perfected.

You can't be No. 1 unless you think like No. 1. You have to appear like No. 1.

People are going to be most creative and productive when they're doing something they're really interested in.

Those lessons that I got along the way are the ones that have shaped my life for the last 20 years.

The iPod is a perfect example of Steve's [Jobs] methodology of starting with the user and looking at the entire end-to-end system.