Wherever smart people work, doors are unlocked.

To give of yourself is much more important than giving a gift you can buy.

I have never left the company. I keep a tiny residual salary to this day because that's where my loyalty should be forever. I want to be an "employee" on the company data base. I won't engineer, I'd rather be basically retired, due to my family. (talking about his relationship with Apple Inc)

It's just not right that so many things don't work when they should. I don't think that will change for a long time.

He [Steve Jobs] had more of the future vision: We can bring this to everyone; we can start a company; we can sell it.

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.

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.