We just wanted to build the best thing we could build
Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me.
It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.
The desktop computer industry is dead. Innovation has virtually ceased. Microsoft dominates with very little innovation. That's over. Apple lost. The desktop market has entered the dark ages, and it's going to be in the dark ages for the next 10 years, or certainly for the rest of this decade.
If I knew in 1986 how much it was going to cost to keep Pixar going, I doubt if I would have bought the company.
Bill Gates'd be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once or gone off to an ashram when he was younger.
We have always been shameless about stealing great ideas.
I'll always stay connected with Apple. I hope that throughout my life I'll sort of have the thread of my life and the thread of Apple weave in and out of each other, like a tapestry. There may be a few years when I'm not there, but I'll always come back.
I told [Bill Gates] I believed every word of what I said but that I should never have said it in public. I wish him the best, I really do. I just think he and Microsoft are a bit narrow. He'd be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once or gone off to an ashram when he was younger.
I'm as proud of many of the things we haven't done as the things we have done. Innovation is saying no to a thousand things.