“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.”

All the best people in life seem to like LINUX.

Our first computers were born not out of greed or ego, but in the revolutionary spirit of helping common people rise above the most powerful institutions.

Don’t worry that you can’t seem to come up with sure billion dollar winners at first. Just do projects for yourself for fun. You’ll get better and better.

Young children were always so important to me. Adults should treat children with more respect. We should put more monies in our schools. I grew up on that side of the coin.

I really worry about everything going to the cloud.

Young children were always so important to me. Adults should treat children with more respect. We should put more monies in our schools. I grew up on that side of the coin.

When you stop and think about it, a smartphone is basically a whistle you can carry.

My dream was actually just to have a computer some day. If I’d imagined that it meant starting a company to sell them, I probably would have avoided the whole thing.

Steve Jobs had very strong feelings about what makes a company great, what makes products great. He more or less chose Tim Cook to be in that role, in that position.

I read Google News and use NetNewsWire to keep up with general and tech news.

Somebody who’s designing something for himself has at least got a market of one that he’s very close to.

I learned not to worry so much about the outcome, but to concentrate on the step I was on and to try to do it as perfectly as I could when I was doing it.

Atari is a very sad story.

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.”

Imagination is something you do alone.

My whole life had been designing computers I could never build.

Drawing an object that has a certain amount of wear and tear or rust; or a tree that is damaged.

Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)

There’s a real sense in which MS and Apple never understood networking or operating systems (or what objects really are).

Those only are happy (I thought) who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness.

All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.

I used to be a Catholic. I left because I object to conversion by concussion. If you don’t agree with what they teach, you get clobbered over the head until you do. All that does is change the shape of the head.

But even today, ninety per cent of the items covered by the word are forgettable objects in which cigarettes can be left to go stale.

The object of universities is not to make skillful lawyers, physicians or engineers. It is to make capable and cultivated human beings.