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

The good music companies do an amazing thing. They have people who can pick the person that's gonna be successful out of 5,000 candidates. And there's not enough information to do that - it's an intuitive process.

[My teacher] basically bribed me back into learning with candy and money and what was really remarkable was before very long I had such a respect for her that it sort of re-ignited my desire to learn.

So [Polaroid's Dr. Edwin] Land, at 75, went off to spend the remainder of his life doing pure science, trying to crack the code of color vision. The man is a national treasure. I don't understand why people like that can't be held up as models: This is the most incredible thing to be - not an astronaut, not a football player - but this.

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

If you don't have a passion, you'll give up.

It's very simple: The more successful you are, the more you'll earn. But if you're not successful, you will not earn a dime.