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.

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

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.

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'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.

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 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.

Creative things have to sell to get acknowledged as such.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Rockets are bad technology. iPhones are good technology

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

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 never got into Linux. I swear to God, it's only lack of time. I'm past the years of my life where I can really dig into something like running a Linux system. I'm very sympathetic to the whole idea; Linux people always think the way I want to think.

When you don't have the hardware resources, you have to take advantage of what you have inside the chip

The easier it is to do something, the harder it is to change the way you do it.

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...

I just believe in whatever you're going to do, even if it's work, have a little bit of fun attitude about it. You can be happy.

My primary phone is the iPhone. I love the beauty of it. But I wish it did all the things my Android does, I really do.