When I went to school, it was right after the '60s and before this general wave of practical purposefulness had set in.... The idealistic wind of the '60s was still at our backs, though, and most of the people I know who are my age have that engrained in them forever.

The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle.

We're just enthusiastic about what we do.

Microsoft has had two goals in the last 10 years. One was to copy the Mac, and the other was to copy Lotus' success in the spreadsheet - basically, the applications business. And over the course of the last 10 years, Microsoft accomplished both of those goals. And now they are completely lost.

The roots of apple were to build computers for people, not for corporations. The world doesn't need another dell or compaq.

If you view computer designers as artists, they're really into more of an art form that can be mass-produced, like records, or like prints, than they are into fine arts. They want something where they can express themselves to a large number of people through their medium, and their medium is technology and manufacturing.

Woz is living his own life now. He hasn't been around Apple for about five years. But what he did will go down in history.