“I really believe I know why my designs were better than any other human being, but I don’t want to take credit for starting Apple, for turning the world around or anything like that.”

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

For some reason I get this key position of being one of two people that started the company that started the revolution.

You need the kind of objectivity that makes you forget everything you’ve heard, clear the table, and do a factual study like a scientist would.

Bill Gates did predict that computers for people made sense because he wrote a basic.

It’s just not right that so many things don’t work when they should. I don’t think that will change for a long time.

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.

Being unwanted is the worst disease any human being can suffer from.

Stop proving yourself to people who don’t believe in you. You are a human, not theorem.

We need not take refuge in supernatural gods to explain our saints and sages and heroes and statesmen, as if to explain our disbelief that mere unaided human beings could be that good or wise.

Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best and it removes all that is base.

Human beings are made up of flesh and blood, and a miracle fiber called courage.

I have raised you in high regard that every other human being in the world is now destined to live in your shadow.

Obviously the most beautiful fate, the most wonderful good fortune that can happen to any human being, is to be paid for doing that which he passionately loves to do.

In the make-up of human beings, intelligence counts for more than our hands, and that is our true strength.