"Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window."
"I think everything I have done in my life, my reasons at the time were right no matter how things worked out."
"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."
"My goal wasn't to make a ton of money. It was to build good computers."
"After the Apple II was introduced, then came the Commodore and the Tandy TRS-80."
"Atari is a very sad story."
"For some reason I get this key position of being one of two people that started the company that started the revolution."
"Hard disks have disappointed me more than most technologies."
"In the end, I hope there's a little note somewhere that says I designed a good computer."
"It would be nice to design a real briefcase - you open it up and it's your computer but it also stores your books."
"The way I did it, every job was A+."
"You know what, Steve Jobs is real nice to me. He lets me be an employee and that's one of the biggest honors of my life."
"But I know newspapers. They have the first amendment and they can tell any lie knowing it's a lie and they're protected if the person's famous or it's a company."
"I worked with such concentration and focus and I had hundreds of obscure engineering or programming things in my head. I was just real exceptional in that way."
"Everything we did we were setting the tone for the world."
"I thought Microsoft did a lot of things that were good and right building parts of the browser into the operating system. Then I thought it out and came up with reasons why it was a monopoly."
"Wherever smart people work, doors are unlocked."
"What I was proud of was that I used very few parts to build a computer that could actually speak words on a screen and type words on a keyboard and run a programming language that could play games. And I did all this myself."
"The more we thought, the more they all sounded boring compared to Apple. You didn't have to have a real specific reason for choosing a name when you were a little tiny company of two people; you choose any name you want."
"The first Apple was just a culmination of my whole life."
"Teachers started recognizing me and praising me for being smart in science and that made me want to be even smarter in science!"
"Steve Jobs didn't really set the direction of my Apple I and Apple II designs but he did the more important part of turning them into a product that would change the world. I don't deny that."
"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."
"My whole life had been designing computers I could never build."
"In some parts of life, like mathematics and science, yeah, I was a genius. I would top all the top scores you could ever measure it by."
