The bottleneck wasn't, How do we make pixels prettier? It was, How do we engage with them more?

If you watched companies such as Sony and Samsung grow, they focused first on features and then on industrial design, which made their products look and feel better.

In fiber optics, the cable is a light pipe or waveguide, into which you inject light. If a finger presses on the pipe, it disrupts that light within the waveguide.

Touch is one of the most intuitive things in the world.

Multi-touch-sensing was designed to allow nontechies to do masterful things while allowing power users to be even more virtuosic.

I want to be a serial entrepreneur: Incubate an idea, get it to a good state, and make that an enabler to get to the next state. It's every researcher's fantasy.

People think dreams aren't real just because they aren't made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes.

Besides, a life without freedom to choose is not worth having.

Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.

The bed is now as public as the dinner table and governed by the same rules of formal confrontation.

I don't think I had a reputation as a hard worker, but inside I was always being eaten up by the pressures.

I never missed a putt in my mind.

I want my words to survive translation.

Sometimes I'll start a sentence and I don't know where it's going. I just hope to find it somewhere along the way. Like an improv conversation. An improversation.

People who have few possessions cling tightly to those they have. That is one of the facts that make life so discouraging.