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

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.

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.

My father was an immigrant from Russia and my mother was first generation.

If you place [your bet] with God, you lose nothing, even if it turns out that God does not exist. But if you place it against God, and you are wrong and God does exist, you lose everything.

Many people have trouble with forgiveness because they have been taught it is a singular act to be completed in one sitting. That is not so. Forgiveness has many layers, many seasons.

Just making sure the boys are okay is my priority in life, and that takes up all of my time right now.

If the monkeys had been concerned only with monkey Beings they would never have become men.

I think him every thing that is worthy and amiable.

My wife holds the kite strings that let me go 'weeeeeee', then she reels me back in.

Eat bread. You don't know if it's been polluted. Drink water, you don't know whether it's been polluted. So living is a test.

To be spiritual means to be solid, calm, and peaceful and to be able to look deeply inside and around us.

We have run out of creativity for children and teachers alike in the name of pushing up standards.

Take no repulse, whatever she doth say; For 'get you gone,' she doth not mean 'away.' Flatter and praise, commend, extol their graces; Though ne'er so black, say they have angels' faces