The Macintosh was supposed to be the computer for people that just wanted to use a computer without having to learn how to use one.

Pixar is seen by a lot of folks as an overnight success, but if you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.

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.

The over-all point is that new technology will not necessarily replace old technology, but it will date it. By definition. Eventually, it will replace it. But it's like people who had black-and-white TVs when color came out. They eventually decided whether or not the new technology was worth the investment.

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.

I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

Our goal is to make the best devices in the world, not to be the biggest.