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

You know, Dr. Edwin Land was a troublemaker. He dropped out of Harvard and founded Polaroid. Not only was he one of the great inventors of our time but, more important, he saw the intersection of art and science and business and built an organization to reflect that. Polaroid did that for some years, but eventually Dr. Land, one of those brilliant troublemakers, was asked to leave his own company - which is one of the dumbest things I've ever heard of.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.

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

Electronics was something I could always fall back on when I needed food on the table.

Details matter, it's worth waiting to get it right.

We did not enter the search business. Google entered the phone business. Make no mistake they want to kill the iPhone. We won't let them.