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

It was one of those sort of apocalyptic moments. I remember within ten minutes of seeing the graphical user interface stuff, just knowing that every computer would work this way someday. It was so obvious once you saw it. It didn't require tremendous intellect. It was so clear.

It's technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the results that make our heart sing.

When you're in a start-up, the first ten people will determine whether the company succeeds or not. Each is 10 percent of the company. So why wouldn't you take as much time as necessary to find all the A players? If three were not so great, why would you want a company where 30 percent of your people are not so great? A small company depends on great people much more than a big company does.

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

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.

Woz is living his own life now. He hasn't been around Apple for about five years. But what he did will go down in history.