I remember going into Steve's [Jobs] house, and he had almost no furniture in it. He just had a picture of Einstein, whom he admired greatly, and he had a Tiffany lamp and a chair and a bed. He just didn't believe in having lots of things around, but he was incredibly careful in what he selected.

Nothing will divide this nation more than ignorance, and nothing can bring us together better than an educated population.

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

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

Steve [Jobs] and I spent months getting to know each other before I joined Apple. He had no exposure to marketing other than what he picked up on his own. This is sort of typical of Steve. When he knows something is going to be important, he tries to absorb as much as he possibly can.

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

Apple no longer builds any products. When I was there, people used to call Apple "a vertically integrated advertising agency," which was not a compliment.