Innovation, I believe, is the only way that America will regain the initiative in a global dynamic economy.

I have found that I always learn more from my mistakes than from my successes. If you aren't making some mistakes, you aren't taking enough chances.

Apple is so focused on its vision that it does things in a very careful, deliberate way.

Everything at Apple can be best understood through the lens of designing. Whether it's designing the look and feel of the user experience, or the industrial design, or the system design, and even things like how the boards were laid out.

When I was 5 or 6 years old, I never wanted toys; I wanted electrical parts so I could build things. And I was better at taking things apart and putting them back together, but I always had extra pieces left over, so I think it was an early warning that I was a better designer than an engineer.

The Mac defined personal technology, and the iPhone defines intimate technology as a convergence of communications, content and location.

If we hadn't put a man on the moon, there wouldn't be a Silicon Valley today