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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I'm surprised at the extent of the bigotry. But it really plays out when companies or schools take a side and prohibit the other platform at all. We Mac users should be good even when the other side is bad. We should do what we can to accept the other platforms. "

" The first Apple was just a culmination of my whole life. "

" 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. "

" Atari is a very sad story. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Wherever smart people work, doors are unlocked. "

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" Not every Apple product makes a big enough difference to me to get instantly, although many do. "

" 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. "

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

" My whole life had been designing computers I could never build. "

" 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. "

" If I designed a computer with 200 chips, I tried to design it with 150. And then I would try to design it with 100. I just tried to find every trick I could in life to design things real tiny. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" You can make something big when young that will carry you through life. Look at all the big startups like Microsoft, Apple, Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc. They were all started by very young people who stumbled on something of unseen value. You'll know it when you hit a home run. "