 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. |
| Even if you do something that others might consider wrong, you should at least be willing to talk about it and tell your parents what you're doing because you believe it's right. |
| After the Apple II was introduced, then came the Commodore and the Tandy TRS-80. |
| It would be nice to design a real briefcase - you open it up and it's your computer but it also stores your books. |
| 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. |
| My goal wasn't to make a ton of money. It was to build good computers. Topics: Computer |
| Atari is a very sad story. |
| It's just not right that so many things don't work when they should. I don't think that will change for a long time. |
| The way I did it, every job was A+. |
| I worked with such concentration and focus and I had hundreds of obscure engineering or programming things in my head. I was just real exceptional in that way. |
| 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. |
| Some great people are leaders and others are more lucky, in the right place at the right time. I'd put myself in the latter category. But I'd never call myself a normal designer of anything. |
| For some reason I get this key position of being one of two people that started the company that started the revolution. |
| 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! |
| Creative things have to sell to get acknowledged as such. |
| Every dream I've ever had in life has come true ten times over. |
| 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. |
