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.

Why would I ever want to run Disney? Wouldn't it make more sense just to sell them Pixar and retire?

The biggest effect of the personal computer revolution has been to allow millions and millions of people to experience computers themselves decades before they ever would have in the old paradigm.

Taking LSD was a profound experience, one of the most important things in my life. LSD shows you that there’s another side to the coin, and you can’t remember it when it wears off, but you know it. It reinforced my sense of what was important—creating great things instead of making money, putting things back into the stream of history and of human consciousness as much as I could.

A lot of time, people don't do great things becoz' great things really aren't expected of them.

If you don't cannibalize yourself, someone else will.

Everyone here has the sense that right now is one of those moments when we are influencing the future.