Good telling of human stories is the best way to keep the Internet and World Wide Web from becoming a waste vastland.

I wonder now how tough you have to be to get big things done.

You know, one of these things that happened in the '60s and '70s was this confluence of, sort of, a counter-culture with computer culture.

Physics should represent a reality in time and space, free from spooky action at a distance.

You and I love understanding American Revolution, but let's also understand the digital revolution, because that makes us more comfortable with our technology.

More generally, I made an effort to leave out things that weren't relevant to the main narrative themes of the book, namely that there were two sides to Steve Jobs: the romantic, poetic, countercultural rebel on one side, and the serious businessperson on the other.

The Mona Lisa, to me, is the greatest emotional painting ever done. The way the smile flickers makes it a work of both art and science, because Leonardo understood optics, and the muscles of the lips, and how light strikes the eye - all of it goes into making the Mona Lisa's smile so mysterious and elusive.