Steve Jobs made the case to Xerox PARC execs directly that they had great technology but that Apple knew how to make it affordable enough to change the world. This was very open. In the end, Xerox got a large block of Apple stock for sharing the technology. That's not stealing outright.

I never sensed really bad blood between Microsoft and Apple. A lot of Macintosh users feel badly about PCs and do have some bad feelings. I call them Macintosh bigots a little. They say, oh, no, only the Macintosh is the good one, and I don't like to be that way.

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

It's a lot easier to think of an app and write it than it is to convince people to want it.

Bill Gates did predict that computers for people made sense because he wrote a basic.

You should stay closely connected to the technology when you start your company.

Not everything in life can go perfectly according to plan. I mean I didn't keep every girlfriend I ever had.