I mean I wasn't a founder in the sense that I contributed anything scientifically but in the sense that I signed the corporation papers and, and owned founder's stock.

Steve Jobs is a national treasure. He is so visionary, and so bright. I had to fire him, though.

You know, a lot of people are just interested in, in building a company so they can make money and get out.

Killing Intel, I, I just had to resign from the Apple Board.

Which, the first meeting with anybody is, you know, everybody is on their best behavior. It's only after you get to know them for a while that you figure out.

The cost of a semiconductor chip fabrication plant doubles every four years.

So I, I knew something in a business sense about semiconductors and I appreciated their possibilities.

People come in with business plans and, I mean I know that no one is going to meet everything they say in a business plan but you got to have something to, to guide towards.

This country's going to have a revolution if something doesn't happen the haves and have - nots.

Well, I was born and raised in Rochester, New York.

And what I'm interested in is investing in people.

Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.

Listen ... With faint dry sound, Like steps of passing ghosts, The leaves, frost-crisp'd, break free from the trees And fall.

Mostly, I avoid worrying since the time spent doing it could be spent more constructively.

Doubt is poison. It leads to a loss of faith in yourself, and in all that's good and true.

All human unhappiness comes from not facing reality squarely, exactly as it is.

A good woman's arms round a man's neck is a lifebelt thrown out to him from heaven.

I understand culture. I am the nucleus.

Hip-Hop is being spoken through spirituality... Meaning that you'll be able to listen to it spiritually for yourself.

When you are different the whole world is different. It is not a question of creating a different world. It is only a ques of creating a different you.

People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them I have the heart of a small boy... and I keep it in a jar on my desk.