Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

Pixar is seen by a lot of folks as an overnight success, but if you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.

We don't believe it's possible to protect digital content. What's new is this amazingly efficient distribution system for stolen property called the Internet-- and no one's gonna shut down the Internet. And it only takes one stolen copy to be on the Internet. And the way we expressed it to them is: Pick one lock--open every door. It only takes one person to pick a lock. Worst case: Somebody just takes the analog outputs of their CD player and rerecords it-- puts it on the Internet. You'll never stop that. So what you have to do is compete with it.

What a computer is to me is the most remarkable tool that we have ever come up with. It's the equivalent of a bicycle for our minds.

We don't get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? So this is what we've chosen to do with our life.

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.

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.