“But Basic happened to be on a GE timesharing system that was done by Dartmouth, and when GE decided to franchise that, it started spreading Basic around just because it was there, not because it had any intrinsic merits whatsoever.”

A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.

Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.

Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.

It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.

The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn’t started yet.

Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.

If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.

And when they decided to beef up their OSs, they went to (different) very old bad mainframe models of OS design to try to adapt to personal computers.

A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Point of view is worth 80 IQ points

Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.

School is basically about one point of view — the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.

I made up the term “object-oriented,” and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.

The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators.

As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.

That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.

And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.

We had the wood shop, the machine shop, so I know about all that. I wanted to build buildings when I graduated from high school. I do know my way around that stuff.

The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.

I’d rather go around in a good pair of jeans that you don’t wash every day, because they get more and more comfortable.

I’ve got incredible support from my wife and family and people around me. I’ve got great people around me who handle anything on the outside, business-wise, who help free me up to create in my job.

I look around my house, and everything except the kids and dogs was made in China. And I’m not sure about the kids. They have brown eyes and small noses.

I love Los Angeles, and it’s been very good to me, but if everyone is running around telling the stories, who’s living them?

When you have good friends you’ve been around, every time they talk, you don’t give them your full attention.

Truly appreciate those around you, and you’ll soon find many others around you. Truly appreciate life, and you’ll find that you have more of it.