Our first computers were born not out of greed or ego, but in the revolutionary spirit of helping common people rise above the most powerful institutions.

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

I had a TV set and a typewriter and that made me think a computer should be laid out like a typewriter with a video screen.

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.

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.

I worked with such concentration and focus and I had hundreds of obscure engineering or programming things in my head. I was just real exceptional in that way

Even if you do something that others might consider wrong, you should at least be willing to talk about it and tell your parents what you're doing because you believe it's right.