You have to seek the simplest implementation of a problem solution in order to know when you've reached your limit in that regard. Then it's easy to make tradeoffs, to back off a little, for performance reasons. You can simplify and simplify and simplify yet still find other incredible ways to simplify further.

I'd learned enough about circuitry in high school electronics to know how to drive a TV and get it to draw - shapes of characters and things.

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

For some reason I get this key position of being one of two people that started the company that started the revolution.

It would be nice to design a real briefcase - you open it up and it's your computer but it also stores your books.

The first Apple was just a culmination of my whole life.

Some great people are leaders and others are more lucky, in the right place at the right time. I'd put myself in the latter category. But I'd never call myself a normal designer of anything.