My dream was actually just to have a computer some day. If I'd imagined that it meant starting a company to sell them, I probably would have avoided the whole thing.

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.

In some parts of life, like mathematics and science, yeah, I was a genius. I would top all the top scores you could ever measure it by.

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

My goal wasn't to make a ton of money. It was to build good computers.

I want to feel that I own things.

You know what, Steve Jobs is real nice to me. He lets me be an employee and that's one of the biggest honors of my life.