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.

He [Steve Jobs] had come from the surplus electronics parts world.So he came from that world, and he said let's sell PC boards for $40. We'll build them for $20 and sell them for $40.

My whole life had been designing computers I could never build.

Every dream I've ever had in life has come true ten times over.

A lot of hacking is playing with other people, you know, getting them to do strange things.

When you're designing and inventing the way I did, every minute of your life is put - every neuron in your brain into trying to think about the little code and how you can maybe have one less line of code and a little bit more straightforward from the beginning to the answer. And you don't have time to think about companies and products and how would I build this. So Steve Jobs and I were a very necessary pair.

I wanted to be a fifth grade teacher because my teacher was so important to me and was giving me the education that was going to take me through life and through this world.