I want to put a ding in the universe.

Recruiting is hard. It's just finding the needles in the haystack. You can't know enough in a one-hour interview.

To follow the path that others have laid before you is a reasonable course of action; therefore all progress is made by unreasonable men.

Everything is important- that success is in the details.

You have to be burning with "an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right." If you're not passionate enough from the start, you'll never stick it out.

It places value on experience versus intellectual understanding. I saw a lot of people contemplating things but it didn't seem to lead to too many places. I got very interested in people who had discovered something more significant than an intellectual, abstract understanding.

Well, Apple invented the PC as we know it, and then it invented the graphical user interface as we know it eight years later (with the introduction of the Mac). But then, the company had a decade in which it took a nap.