The most corrosive piece of technology that I've ever seen is called television - but then, again, television, at its best, is magnificent.

If you don't cannibalize yourself, someone else will.

I'm an optimist in the sense that I believe humans are noble and honorable, and some of them are really smart. I have a very optimistic view of individuals.

A-plus players like to work together and they don't like it if you tolerate B work.

It's not like Windows users don't have any power. I think they are happy with Windows, and that's an incredibly depressing thought

This revolution, the information revoultion, is a revolution of free energy as well, but of another kind: free intellectual energy. It's very crude today, yet our Macintosh computer takes less power than a 100-watt bulb to run it and it can save you hours a day. What will it be able to do ten or 20 years from now, or 50 years from now?

The desktop computer industry is dead. Innovation has virtually ceased. Microsoft dominates with very little innovation. That's over. Apple lost. The desktop market has entered the dark ages, and it's going to be in the dark ages for the next 10 years, or certainly for the rest of this decade.