Innovation Is Saying 'no' To 1,000 Things.

Part Of What Made The Macintosh Great Was That The People Working On It Were Musicians And Poets And Artists And Zoologists And Historians Who Also Happened To Be The Best Computer Scientists In The World.

Recruiting Is Hard. It's Just Finding The Needles In The Haystack. You Can't Know Enough In A One-hour Interview. So, In The End, It's Ultimately Based On Your Gut. How Do I Feel About This Person? What Are They Like When They're Challenged? I Ask Everybody That: 'why Are You Here?' The Answers Themselves Are Not What You're Looking For. It's The Meta-data.

I Try To Get People To See What I Have. . . . When You Run A Computer Company, You Have To Get People To Buy Into Your Dreams.

I Know From My Own Education That If I Hadn't Encountered Two Or Three Individuals That Spent Extra Time With Me, I'm Sure I Would Have Been In Jail.

And We've All Chosen To Do This With Our Lives. So It Better Be Damn Good. It Better Be Worth It.