“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.”

I was born to teach. I have always had this gift with children.

Most inventors and engineers I’ve met are like me. They’re shy and they live in their heads. The very best of them are artists. And artists work best alone.

When we first started with Apple computers, it was my dream that everyone would learn to program, and that was how they’d use their computer.

I think that the anti-Microsoft sentiment is simply due to their having been so successful selling a lot of crap.

Teachers started recognizing me and praising me for being smart in science and that made me want to be even smarter in science!

The first Apple was just a culmination of my whole life.

There’s nothing that would keep Apple out of the Android market as a secondary phone market.

With the cloud, you don’t own anything. You already signed it away.

I absolutely do not need a salary or a job, that’s the last thing I need.

The easier it is to do something, the harder it is to change the way you do it.

I’d learned enough about circuitry in high school electronics to know how to drive a TV and get it to draw – shapes of characters and things.

Some great people are leaders and others are more lucky, in the right place at the right time. I’d put myself in the latter category. But I’d never call myself a normal designer of anything.

A lot of things seem to be worth almost no money. but if you do them very well, and they help people fill a need, there’s a great business you can build around that.

Neither one of us could be sure we’d get our money back on this investment, but we just wanted to have company of our own for once because we were best friends.

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

A lot of hacking is playing with other people, you know, getting them to do strange things.

I don’t know if I believe in luck. I think I’m very fortunate.

when pain has been intertwined with love and closeness, it’s very difficult to believe that love and closeness can be experienced without pain.

By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.

I’m just a believer in keeping all of the creative brain cells moving and working even when you’re not working because the inevitable loneliness and boring drought in the actor’s world, it can eat you alive.

Do not believe that you alone can be right.The man who thinks that,The man who maintains that only he has the power To reason correctly, the gift to speak, the soul-A man like that, when you know him, turns out empty.

Imagining anything is the first step toward creating it. Believing in a true self is what allows a true self to be born.

Of the gods we believe, and of men we know, that by a necessary law of their nature they rule wherever they can.

I believe a unique core self is born into every human being; the result of millennia of environment and heredity combined in an unpredictable way that could never happen before or again.