If you love what you do and are willing to do what it takes, it's within your reach. And it'll be worth every minute you spend alone at night, thinking and thinking about what it is you want to design or build. It'll be worth it, I promise.
All of a sudden, weβve lost a lot of control,β he said. βWe canβt turn off our internet; we canβt turn off our smartphones; we canβt turn off our computers. You used to ask a smart person a question. Now, who do you ask? It starts with g-o, and itβs not Godβ¦
Creative things have to sell to get acknowledged as such.
After the Apple II was introduced, then came the Commodore and the Tandy TRS-80.
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.
Atari is a very sad story.
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.
Teachers started recognizing me and praising me for being smart in science and that made me want to be even smarter in science!
Not every Apple product makes a big enough difference to me to get instantly, although many do.
It would be nice to design a real briefcase - you open it up and it's your computer but it also stores your books.
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.
I sold my most valuable possession, but I knew that because I worked at Hewlett Packard, I could buy the next model calculator the very next month for a lower price than I sold the older one for!
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.
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 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.
Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window.
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.
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.'
The first Apple was just a culmination of my whole life.
My whole life had been designing computers I could never build.
