Being idealistic really helps you overcome some of the many obstacles put in your path.

I did some products for the Apple II, most notably the first small low cost thermal printer, the Silent Type.

I left General Magic in 1996 to become an Internet hobbyist - got a T-1 line to my house. At one point I had all four food banks of the Bay Area hosted from this house here.

People who work on the user interface side need to have empathy as a key characteristic. But if you are writing device drivers you don't really need to understand humans so well.

I developed some unique software to public it on the web that I call the Folklore Project.

A lot of people thought Steve Jobs was a CEO of Apple but he never was until he came back to Apple in 1997.

I knew the Apple II was great when I bought it, but as I dug into the details it just completely blew me away the creative artistic approach that the designers had taken.

I was a grad student at UC Berkeley when I bought my Apple II and it suddenly because a lot more interesting than school

In fact when I first got my Apple II the first thing I did was turn it on and off, on and off, just because I had the power to do so, which I'd never had on a computer before

I left Apple in April of 1984, pretty soon after the introduction of the Mac.

I started working at Apple about 18 months after I bought my Apple II

You don't have to go with the crowd.

Many people who voted for Mr. Obama in the last election did so based on skin color.

They didn't do this because they have facts, because they have solid proof against me. They did it because the president spoke and now they must prove that he was right and that is my great worry.

My essentials are skinny jeans, loose-fitting tees, big jumpers, and the leather jacket. Everything is black or blue - I don't own anything colorful.

I never think of the time I have lost. I just carry out a programme because it's there. It's mapped out for me.

I was attracted by the curve — the liberated, sensual curve suggested by the possibilities of new technology yet so often recalled in venerable old baroque churches.

The world is full of incredible people who are embodiments of compassion. Some of them have a spiritual path; some of them don't.

And I fly planes all the time. And helicopters.

I'm a farm boy from Connecticut, and I adopted urban life.