All of a sudden, we've lost a lot of control. We can't turn off our internet; we can't turn off our smartphones; we can't turn off our computers. You used to ask a smart person a question. Now, who 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 am also atheist or agnostic (I don't even know the difference). I've never been to church and prefer to think for myself.
Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window.
My goal wasn't to make a ton of money. It was to build good computers.
My whole life had been designing computers I could never build.
In the end, I hope there's a little note somewhere that says I designed a good computer.
Atari is a very sad story.
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. An...
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.
At our computer club, we talked about it being a revolution. Computers were going to belong to everyone, and give us power, and free us from the people who owned computers and all that stuff.
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.
Wherever smart people work, doors are unlocked.
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.
All the best people in life seem to like LINUX.
I acquired a central ability that was to help me through my entire career: patience. I'm serious. Patience is usually so underrated. I mean, for all these projects, from third grade all the way to eig...
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.
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.
As soon as he said it was okay to do engineering, that really freed me up. My psychological block was really that I didn't want to start a company. Because I was just afraid. In business and politics,...
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.