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.

My goal wasn't to make a ton of money. It was to build good computers.

The easier it is to do something, the harder it is to change the way you do it.

College just didn't even have computers for an under-curriculum when I started college.

I never sensed really bad blood between Microsoft and Apple. A lot of Macintosh users feel badly about PCs and do have some bad feelings. I call them Macintosh bigots a little. They say, oh, no, only the Macintosh is the good one, and I don't like to be that way.

My primary phone is the iPhone. I love the beauty of it. But I wish it did all the things my Android does, I really do.

Being an electronic genius was a reputation I had, maybe being even into math and science almost exclusively and not wanting to be in the other normal parts of the world.