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Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window.

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Another hero was Tom Swift, in the books. What he stood for, the freedom, the scientific knowledge and being and engineer gave him the ability to invent solutions to problems. He's always been a hero to me. I buy old Tom Swift books now and read them to my own children.

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I'm surprised at the extent of the bigotry. But it really plays out when companies or schools take a side and prohibit the other platform at all. We Mac users should be good even when the other side is bad. We should do what we can to accept the other platforms.

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The Mac's a symbol of a whole revolution, and most of us that participated in it from the beginning and believed in it bought into these new ideals of computers to really help people, and not something that you had to fight, memorize and learn, ... That whole revolution just continues in our hearts to this day.

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Macintosh users tend to be a very independent type, and they tend to be very loyal to their product. They've been threatened with Apple going out of business and being put out of their schools and out of their companies, and they've got to fight. There's so much passion for it.

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Steve and I ran the business into 1977 with just a few hundred bucks.

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It disturbed me quite a bit when young children had to get on the evacuation buses and leave their pets behind, ... Pets are a part of your family, at least in my opinion. I have five dogs of my own and they're my family. I can't imagine having to leave them behind.

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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.

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When I designed projects in college, he said, let's sell it.

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But it was kind of fun to have a company, and that was good enough reason to do it. And step by step, boy, it was right timing. Computers were exploding and we were in it exactly at the right time.

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All of a sudden, we needed something like 250,000, so we had to go out and pursue the company in a whole different aspect, and we found somebody who was willing to put their money in.

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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.

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For some reason I get this key position of being one of two people that started the company that started the revolution.

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The more we thought, the more they all sounded boring compared to Apple. You didn't have to have a real specific reason for choosing a name when you were a little tiny company of two people you choose any name you want.

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I had a TV set and a typewriter and that made me think a computer should be laid out like a typewriter with a video screen.

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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.

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In the end, I hope there's a little note somewhere that says I designed a good computer.

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It would be nice to design a real briefcase - you open it up and it's your computer but it also stores your books.

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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. And I did all this myself.

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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.

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Creative things have to sell to get acknowledged as such.

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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.

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My goal wasn't to make a ton of money. It was to build good computers.

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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.

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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

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