I really, really wanted to be successful in my life just based on me and my mind alone…I didn’t ever want it to be an equation that amounted to a result coming from my brain plus something else.

I am also atheist or agnostic (I don't even know the difference). I've never been to church and prefer to think for myself.

I really worry about everything going to the cloud,

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

It's funny how when you're up so late at night for so long your mind can get into these creative places, the kind of creative places that come to you when you're halfway between asleep and awake.

I want the entire smartphone, the entire Internet, on my wrist.

My goal wasn't to make a ton of money. It was to build good computers.

A mind forever voyaging through strange seas of thought…alone.

I am the person I want to be. I got to teach and had some of the greatest times in my life learning that I had some teaching skills and doing some incredible things teaching 200 hours of computers a year to fifth graders, making them experts at certain things.

Rockets are bad technology. iPhones are good technology

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

What Steve Jobs and I did-and at the same time Bill Gates and Paul Allen did-we had no savings accounts, no friends that could loan us money. But we had ideas, and I wanted all my life to be a part of a revolution.

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

Not everything in life can go perfectly according to plan. I mean I didn't keep every girlfriend I ever had.

College just didn't even have computers for an under-curriculum when I started college.

I wanted to be funny. And I'm always acknowledged for my pranks and jokes nowadays.

And Communist Russia was so bad because they followed their people, they snooped on them, they arrested them, they put them in secret prisons, they disappeared them.

The biggest benefit in my life comes from my Segway, which I use everywhere I am. If I'm going to San Antonio, for example, I'll load it in the car and just go everywhere with it.

Being an electronic genius was a reputation I had, maybe being even into math and science almost exclusively and not wanting to be in the other normal parts of the world.

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.

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.

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.

My first transistor radio was the heart of my gadget love today. It fit in my hand and brought me a world of music 24 / 7.

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

I have a calendar life that is complicated, so I use BusyCal and Google Calendar. I keep two different browsers open to avoid some confusion.

A lot of hacking is playing with other people, you know, getting them to do strange things.

At our computer club, we talked about it being a revolution. Computers were going to belong to everyone, and give us power, and free us from the people who owned computers and all that stuff.

Creative things have to sell to get acknowledged as such.

I had a TV set and a typewriter and that made me think a computer should be laid out like a typewriter with a video screen.

I sold my most valuable possession, but I knew that because I worked at Hewlett Packard, I could buy the next model calculator the very next month for a lower price than I sold the older one for!

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.

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.

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.

Teachers started recognizing me and praising me for being smart in science and that made me want to be even smarter in science!

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.

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.

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.

The way I did it, every job was A+.

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.

It would be nice to design a real briefcase - you open it up and it's your computer but it also stores your books.

Atari is a very sad story.

After the Apple II was introduced, then came the Commodore and the Tandy TRS-80.

I have always respected education, which is why I actually went back secretly and taught school for eight years.

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.

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

If you try to make such projects, unseen by others, as perfect as any human could, you'll develop skills that other professionals don't have.

Hard disks have disappointed me more than most technologies.

When I have spare time, I catch up on things I've had to postpone due to lack of time.

I wish to God that Apple and Google were partners in the future.