Only two people have been on the cover of Time Magazine in bare feet. I'm one, the other is Gandhi.

No one should expect building a new high-growth, software-powered company in an established industry to be easy. It's brutally difficult.

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.

My own theory is that we are in the middle of a dramatic and broad technological and economic shift in which software companies are poised to take over large swathes of the economy

Around '93, '94, the conventional wisdom about the Internet was that it was a toy for academics and researchers. So it was very, very underestimated for about two years.

The good news is we had this idea of cloud computing. The bad news is we were 10 years too early.

I don't waste time being depressed.