The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn't think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential.
I have never, honestly, thrown a chair in my life.
It's how tenacious you are that will determine your success.
Computer science is the operating system for all innovation.
There's no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance.
I like to tell people that all of our products and business will go through three phases. There's vision, patience, and execution.
You get some success. You run into some walls...it's how tenacious you are, how irrepressible, how ultimately optimistic and tenacious you are about it that will determine your success.
I want to express my deepest condolences at the passing of Steve Jobs, one of the founders of our industry and a true visionary. My heart goes out to his family, everyone at Apple and everyone who has been touched by his work.
Great companies with the way they work, first start with great leaders.
I don't think anyone has done a [tablet] product that I see customers wanting.
We're going to think big, we're going to bet big.
Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches.
I think good ideas are usually better done quickly than slowly.
Any idea that turns out to be truly great can be harvested for tens of years. On the other hand, if you want to continue to be great, you've got to bet on new things, big, bold bets.
The Internet Was Designed For The PC. The Internet Is Not Designed For The iPhone
I don't really know that anybody's proven that a random collection of people doing their own thing actually creates value.
Accessible design is good design.
Whatever device you use, Windows will be there. Windows will be everywhere on every device without compromise.
I don't know what a monopoly is until somebody tells me.
I'm going to f---ing kill Google.
This is all about having great leaders who can drive agile innovation and agile decision-making.
Developers, developers, developers, developers.
Google's not a real company. It's a house of cards.
Great companies have high cultures of accountability, it comes with this culture of criticism I was talking about before, and I think our culture is strong on that.
I didn't leave business school to go bankrupt.
