Steve Jobs had very strong feelings about what makes a company great, what makes products great. He more or less chose Tim Cook to be in that role, in that position.

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

It's just not right that so many things don't work when they should. I don't think that will change for a long time.

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.

Rockets are bad technology. iPhones are good technology

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.

I'm also a fan with sticking with the most standard software that millions of other users also use, because you get the benefit of all those other users' problems and solutions.