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I think everything I have done in my life, my reasons at the time were right no matter how things worked out.
I have always respected education, which is why I actually went back secretly and taught school for eight years.
I think that the anti-Microsoft sentiment is simply due to their having been so successful selling a lot of crap.
It would be nice to design a real briefcase - you open it up and it's your computer but it also stores your books.
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.
He [Steve Jobs] had more of the future vision: We can bring this to everyone; we can start a company; we can sell it.
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.
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.
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 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 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 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.
Teachers started recognizing me and praising me for being smart in science and that made me want to be even smarter in science!
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.
The best things that capture your imagination are ones you hadn't thought of before and that aren't talked about in the news all the time.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
My goal wasn't to make a ton of money. It was to build good computers. I only started the company when I realized I could be an engineer forever.
When the Internet first came, I thought it was just the beacon of freedom. People could communicate with anyone, anywhere, and nobody could stop it.
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.
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.
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.
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 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
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.
I just was non-political and didn't see myself as a person who could push people around, make their decision, you know, and tell them how lousy their work was.
Everything that has a computer in will fail. Everything in your life, from a watch to a car to a radio, to an iPhone, it will fail if it have a computer in it.
Neither one of us could be sure we'd get our money back on this investment, but we just wanted to have company of our own for once because we were best friends.
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.
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 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.
A lot of things seem to be worth almost no money. but if you do them very well, and they help people fill a need, there's a great business you can build around that.
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.
There are good things I see on Samsung phones that I wish were in my iPhone. I wish Apple would use them and could use them, and I don't know if Samsung would stop us.
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.
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 wanted to be a fifth grade teacher because my teacher was so important to me and was giving me the education that was going to take me through life and through this world.
I had much more money than you ever need in your life to live on. So I was giving computer labs to school districts. I was - but then I decided you should really give yourself.
I'm also a fan with sticking with the most standard software that millions of other users also use, because you get the benefit of all those other users' problems and solutions.
Even if you do something that others might consider wrong, you should at least be willing to talk about it and tell your parents what you're doing because you believe it's right.
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.
I really believe I know why my designs were better than any other human being, but I don't want to take credit for starting Apple, for turning the world around or anything like that.
He [Steve Jobs] had come from the surplus electronics parts world.So he came from that world, and he said let's sell PC boards for $40. We'll build them for $20 and sell them for $40.
I went - I had designed - in high school designed hundreds and hundreds of computers over and over and over, so I developed these skills without ever thinking I'd do it in life as job.
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.
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