“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.”

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.

If I designed a computer with 200 chips, I tried to design it with 150. And then I would try to design it with 100. I just tried to find every trick I could in life to design things real tiny.

I wish to God that Apple and Google were partners in the future.

When you’re providing a service to somebody, you’re the guy they always call when something’s wrong.

To give of yourself is much more important than giving a gift you can buy.

I just believe in whatever you’re going to do, even if it’s work, have a little bit of fun attitude about it. You can be happy.

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

I prefer that Argentina wins the World Cup. Messi deserves it for all he has done in football. He’s my friend, I wish him the best.

I would almost say that the best screen actor is the man who can do nothing extremely well.

To be the best and stay there, sweat is necessary.

When the days are too short, chances are you are living at your best.

Never settle for anything less than your best.

All I know is I’ve tried my best.

Trust is the highest form of human motivation. It brings out the very best in people. But it takes time and patience.

Your mind can be your best friend or your worst enemy, but it’s your choice to make.