The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay.

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

I want to put a ding in the universe.

My job is to make the whole executive team good enough to be successors, so that's what I try to do.

Apple is the only company in the world that has all of that under one roof. We can invent a complete a solution that works - and take responsibility for it.

I would trade all of my technology for an afternoon with Socrates.

Team, it turned out that Michael Dell wasn't perfect at predicting the future. Based on today's stock market close, Apple is worth more than Dell. Stocks go up and down and things may be different tomorrow but I thought it was worth a moment of reflection today.