I started passing out the schematics and the code listings for the computer, telling everyone here it is. It's small, it's simple, it's inexpensive: Build your own. No idea to start a company. Steve Jobs came by later and say, you know, people are interested. Why don't we start a company?

Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window.

When you're about 20 years old, you kind of think out - I figured out that it was better - less good to be successful and better to have a laughing life, laugh more than you frown all through your life. Because on the day you die, which one would you have said had the happier life, the better life? And so I put a lot of humor in my life.

If you love what you do and are willing to do what it takes, it's within your reach.

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

Most inventors and engineers I've met are like me. They're shy and they live in their heads. The very best of them are artists. And artists work best alone.

The best things that capture your imagination are ones you hadn't thought of before and that aren't talked about in the news all the time.