Most people have no concept of how an automatic transmission works, yet they know how to drive a car. You don't have to study physics to understand the laws of motion to drive a car. You don't have to understand any of this stuff to use Macintosh.

Microsoft has had two goals in the last 10 years. One was to copy the Mac, and the other was to copy Lotus' success in the spreadsheet - basically, the applications business. And over the course of the last 10 years, Microsoft accomplished both of those goals. And now they are completely lost.

There will always be music on the Internet that people can steal. What's new is not theft. What's new is a distribution channel for stolen property called the Internet. So there will always be illegal music on the Internet.

The Macintosh was supposed to be the computer for people that just wanted to use a computer without having to learn how to use one.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.

I'm convinced that about half of what separates successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.

I think the Macintosh was created by a group of people who felt that ah there wasn't a strict vision between sort of science and art.