All through time in Apple products, even from our very first ones, that's how he [Steve Jobs] looked at the world, that you don't really want a piece of technology, a certain type of chip. What you want is a solution to a problem in life, some cause, some issue that you want in your life that'll help you. And it's how do you make that almost one step - say it and it happens.

I had a TV set and a typewriter and that made me think a computer should be laid out like a typewriter with a video screen.

If you try to make such projects, unseen by others, as perfect as any human could, you'll develop skills that other professionals don't have.

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.

Everything we did we were setting the tone for the world.

Not everything in life can go perfectly according to plan. I mean I didn't keep every girlfriend I ever had.

In some parts of life, like mathematics and science, yeah, I was a genius. I would top all the top scores you could ever measure it by.