On Startups: "I hate it when people call themselves "entrepreneurs" when what they're really trying to do is launch a startup and then sell or go public, so they can cash in and move on.

What Einstein was able to do was - to use a cliche - think out of the box.

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

I've asked Jobs why he didn't get an operation then and he said, 'I didn't want my body to be opened... I didn't want to be violated in that way.'

I've always had an abundance of material about the subjects of my biographies.

The childhood that Paul and Clara Jobs created for their new son was, in many ways, a stereotype of the late 1950s. When Steve was two they adopted a girl they named Patty, and three years later they moved to a tract house in the suburbs.

...never let a passion for the perfect take precedence over pragmatism.