What we're doing here will send a giant ripple through the universe.

One: demonstrations always crash. And two: the probability of them crashing goes up exponentially with the number of people watching.

I was worth about over a million dollars when I was 23 and over ten million dollars when I was 24, and over a hundred million dollars when I was 25 and... it wasn't that important — because I never did it for the money.

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.

What we want to do is make a leapfrog product that is way smarter than any mobile device has ever been, and super-easy to use. This is what iPhone is. OK? So, we're going to reinvent the phone.

Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

Pixar is seen by a lot of folks as an overnight success, but if you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.