I know that living with me was not a bowl of cherries.

With our technology, with objects, literally three people in a garage can blow away what 200 people at Microsoft can do. Literally can blow it away. Corporate America has a need that is so huge and can save them so much money, or make them so much money, or cost them so much money if they miss it, that they are going to fuel the object revolution.

Woz and I started Apple in my parents' garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4,000 employees.

When the sales guys run the company, the product guys do not matter so much, and a lot of them just turn off.

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

We made the buttons on the screen look so good you'll want to lick them.

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.