“Back in high school I told my dad, “I’m going to have a computer someday.” And he said that it cost as much as a house-the downpayment on a house. And I said, “Well, I’ll live in an apartment.””

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.

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.

I don’t even know which end of a computer one is supposed to gaze into. I’ve never used a computer.

When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.

The modern computer with all its various gadgets and wonderful electronic facilities now makes it possible to preserve and reinvigorate all the cultural richness of mankind.

I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.

The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.

In computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.

Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.

[Computing] is just a fabulous place for that, because it’s a place where you don’t have to be a Ph.D. or anything else. It’s a place where you can still be an artisan.