I want to put a ding in the universe.

The most corrosive piece of technology that I've ever seen is called television - but then, again, television, at its best, is magnificent.

Many companies forget what it means to make great products. After initial success, sales and marketing people take over and the product people eventually make their way out.

Probably death is the best invention of life.

What is Apple, after all? Apple is about people who think 'outside the box,' people who want to use computers to help them change the world, to help them create things that make a difference, and not just to get a job done.

When we started off we didn't know how to spell software.

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.