You know, my main reaction to this money thing is that it's humorous, all the attention to it, because it's hardly the most insightful or valuable thing that's happened to me.

When you're doing something for yourself, or your best friend or family, you're not going to cheese out. If you don't love something, you're not going to go the extra mile, work the extra weekend, challenge the status quo as much.

We just wanted to build the best thing we could build

It took us three years to build the NeXT computer. If we'd given customers what they said they wanted, we'd have built a computer they'd have been happy with a year after we spoke to them - not something they'd want now.

Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it's really how it works.

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

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