When you're providing a service to somebody, you're the guy they always call when something's wrong.

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.

Hard disks have disappointed me more than most technologies.

Predictions can sound really good if you're good with words and can express them eloquently and give people ideas and inspiration in their head. But I'm not really good at that, so I don't want to.

If I designed a computer with 200 chips, I tried to design it with 150. And then I would try to design it with 100. I just tried to find every trick I could in life to design things real tiny

It would be nice to design a real briefcase - you open it up and it's your computer but it also stores your books.

We truly could have used the later Jobs in earlier years at Apple, is what I feel.