Innovation accelerates and compounds. Each point in front of you is bigger than anything that ever happened.

You are cruising along, and then technology changes. You have to adapt.

Once you understand that everybody's going to get connected, a lot of things follow from that. If everybody gets the Internet, they end up with a browser, so they look at web pages - but they can also leave comments, create web pages. They can even host their own server! So not only is everybody consuming, they can also produce.

China is very entrepreneurial but has no rule of law. Europe has rule of law but isn't entrepreneurial. Combine rule of law, entrepreneurialism and a generally pro-business policy, and you have Apple.

I think that every technology company that's more than 20 years old will break up

At a certain point in your career - I mean, part of the answer is a personal answer, which is that at a certain point in your career, it becomes more satisfying to help entrepreneurs than to be one.

These days, you have the option of staying home, blogging in your underwear, and not having your words mangled. I think I like the direction things are headed.