Smart people are a dime a dozen. What matters is the ability to think different... to think out of the box.

Smart people are a dime a dozen. What matters is the ability to think different... to think out of the box.

Jobs has within him sort of this conflict, but he doesn't quite see it as a conflict between being hippie-ish and anti-materialistic but wanting to sell things like Wozniak's board. Wanting to create a business.

I used to be an angry man myself. I’m a recovering assaholic so I could recognize that in Steve. (quoting Jean-Louis Gassée)

I actually think Bill Gates is conventionally smarter, even though it's a dumb word, but mental processing power - I've watched him use four different screens, process information, get to the right answer, boom boom boom.

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.'

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