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.

I wanted to be funny. And I'm always acknowledged for my pranks and jokes nowadays.

Steve Jobs made the case to Xerox PARC execs directly that they had great technology but that Apple knew how to make it affordable enough to change the world. This was very open. In the end, Xerox got a large block of Apple stock for sharing the technology. That's not stealing outright.

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.

I was kind of amazed because I first found out about blue boxes in an article in Esquire magazine labeled fiction. That article was the most truthful article I've ever read in my life... That article was so truthful, and it told about a mistake in the phone company that let you dial phone calls anywhere in the world. What an amazing thing to discover.

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.

I wanted to be an elementary school teacher my whole life.