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

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

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window. "

" I just believe that the way that young people's minds develop is fascinating. If you are doing something for a grade or salary or a reward, it doesn't have as much meaning as creating something for yourself and your own life. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Creative things have to sell to get acknowledged as such. "

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

" 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 want to be able to speak with errors in my wording, errors in my grammar. When you type things into Google search, it corrects your words. With speech, I want it to be general enough, smart enough, to know 'No, he couldn't have meant these words that I think he said. He must have really meant something similar.' "

" Another hero was Tom Swift, in the books. What he stood for, the freedom, the scientific knowledge and being and engineer gave him the ability to invent solutions to problems. He's always been a hero to me. I buy old Tom Swift books now and read them to my own children. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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" Atari is a very sad story. "

" 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. "

" Your first projects aren't the greatest things in the world, and they may have no money value, they may go nowhere, but that is how you learn - you put so much effort into making something right if it is for yourself. "

" 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. "

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