Teachers started recognizing me and praising me for being smart in science and that made me want to be even smarter in science!

You have to seek the simplest implementation of a problem solution in order to know when you've reached your limit in that regard. Then it's easy to make tradeoffs, to back off a little, for performance reasons. You can simplify and simplify and simplify yet still find other incredible ways to simplify further.

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.

I think Apple's revenge is just the fact that Windows, you know, PCs all became Macintoshes in a way.

Everything that has a computer in will fail. Everything in your life, from a watch to a car to a radio, to an iPhone, it will fail if it have a computer in it.

The Homebrew Computer Club was the highlight of my life. I was too shy to ever talk in the club meeting, but the way that I could communicate sometimes was by doing good designs. I was very skilled at a certain type of circuit design.

You should stay closely connected to the technology when you start your company.