A lot of hacking is playing with other people, you know, getting them to do strange things.

Creative things have to sell to get acknowledged as such.

Neither one of us could be sure we'd get our money back on this investment, but we just wanted to have company of our own for once because we were best friends.

You need the kind of objectivity that makes you forget everything you've heard, clear the table, and do a factual study like a scientist would.

It's just not right that so many things don't work when they should. I don't think that will change for a long time.

What Steve Jobs and I did-and at the same time Bill Gates and Paul Allen did-we had no savings accounts, no friends that could loan us money. But we had ideas, and I wanted all my life to be a part of a revolution.

I want to feel that I own things.