We just wanted to build the best thing we could build

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

We don't get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? So this is what we've chosen to do with our life.

All the work I've done in my life will be obsolete by the time I'm fifty.

The most compelling reason for most people to buy a computer for the home will be to link it to a nationwide communications network. We're just in the beginning stages of what will be a truly remarkable breakthrough for most people - as remarkable as the telephone.

I hate the way people use PowerPoints instead of thinking

The mark of an innovative company is not only that it comes up with new ideas first, but also that it knows how to leapfrog when it finds itself behind.