Technology is nothing. What's important is that you have a faith in people, that they're basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they'll do wonderful things with them.
Was George Orwell right about 1984?
We're gambling on our vision, and we would rather do that than make "me too" products. Let some other companies do that. For us, it's always the next dream.
It is hard to think that a $2 billion company with 4,300-plus people couldn't compete with six people in blue jeans.
They're babes in the woods. I think I can help turn Alvy and Ed into businessmen.
If, for some reason, we make some big mistake and IBM wins, my personal feeling is that we are going to enter a computer Dark Ages for about twenty years.
I feel like somebody just punched me in the stomach and knocked all my wind out. I'm only 30 years old and I want to have a chance to continue creating things. I know I've got at least one more great computer in me. And Apple is not going to give me a chance to do that.
Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance to change the world?