In the end, I hope there's a little note somewhere that says I designed a good computer.
Copy Quote View & ShareI have always respected education, which is why I actually went back secretly and taught school for eight years.
Copy Quote View & ShareIf 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.
Copy Quote View & ShareYou can make something big when young that will carry you through life. Look at all the big startups like Microsoft, Apple, Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc. They were all started by very young people who stumbled on something of unseen value. You'll know it when you hit a home run.
Copy Quote View & ShareAt 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.
Copy Quote View & ShareIt would be nice to design a real briefcase - you open it up and it's your computer but it also stores your books.
Copy Quote View & ShareYour first projects aren't the greatest things in the world, and they may have no money value, they may go nowhere, but that is how you learn - you put so much effort into making something right if it is for yourself.
Copy Quote View & ShareAnother 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.
Copy Quote View & ShareMy goal wasn't to make a ton of money. It was to build good computers. I only started the company when I realized I could be an engineer forever.
Copy Quote View & ShareThe 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.
Copy Quote View & ShareWhat 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.
Copy Quote View & ShareBut 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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