Electronics was something I could always fall back on when I needed food on the table.

Do not try to do everything. Do one thing well.

It's not about charisma and personality, it's about results and products and those very bedrock things that are why people at Apple and outside of Apple are getting more excited about the company and what Apple stands for and what its potential is to contribute to the industry.

The web is not going to change the world, certainly not in the next 10 years. It's going to augment the world. And once you're in this web-augmented space, you're going to see that democratization takes place.

I was at Reed [College] for only a few months. My parents intended for me to stay there for all four years but I decided that college wasn't right for me. I had no idea what I wanted to do I didn't see how college was going to help me.

Let them know precisely what you are going to do with their data

Who wants a stylus. You have to get em and put em away, and you lose em. Yuck. Nobody wants a stylus.