Apple is the only company in the world that has all of that under one roof. We can invent a complete a solution that works - and take responsibility for it.

And no, we don't know where it will lead. We just know there's something much bigger than any of us here.

Why would I ever want to run Disney? Wouldn't it make more sense just to sell them Pixar and retire?

My job is to make the whole executive team good enough to be successors, so that's what I try to do.

There's nothing that makes my day more than getting an e-mail from some random person in the universe who just bought an iPad over in the UK and tells me the story about how it's the coolest product they've ever brought home in their lives. That's what keeps me going.

You know, Dr. Edwin Land was a troublemaker. He dropped out of Harvard and founded Polaroid. Not only was he one of the great inventors of our time but, more important, he saw the intersection of art and science and business and built an organization to reflect that. Polaroid did that for some years, but eventually Dr. Land, one of those brilliant troublemakers, was asked to leave his own company - which is one of the dumbest things I've ever heard of.

Computers themselves, and software yet to be developed, will revolutionize the way we learn.