"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."
"My goal wasn't to make a ton of money. It was to build good computers."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"I have always respected education, which is why I actually went back secretly and taught school for eight years."
"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."
"I read Google News and use NetNewsWire to keep up with general and tech news."
"It would be nice to design a real briefcase - you open it up and it's your computer but it also stores your books."
"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."
"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."
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