Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.

For most of my life, I’ve felt that there must be more to our existence than meets the eye. This is who I am, and you can’t expect me to be someone I’m not.

Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.

Coming back to America was, for me, much more of a culture shock than going to India. The people in the Indian countryside don't use their intellect like we do, they use their intuition instead, and their intuition is far more developed than in the rest of the world. Intuition is a very powerful thing, more powerful than intellect in my opinion. That's had a big impact on my work.

For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through.

You'll see more and more perfection of that - computer as servant. But the next thing is going to be computer as a guide or agent.

I know that living with me was not a bowl of cherries.