The organization of science into disciplines sets up a series of ghettos with remarkable distances of artificial social space between them.
Steve Jobs doesn't use a Mac, and won't, because it's too crappy in his opinion.
Some great people are leaders and others are more lucky, in the right place at the right time. I'd put myself in the latter category. But I'd never call myself a normal designer of anything.
Bill Gates did predict that computers for people made sense because he wrote a basic.
If you try to make such projects, unseen by others, as perfect as any human could, you'll develop skills that other professionals don't have.
When we first started with Apple computers, it was my dream that everyone would learn to program, and that was how they'd use their computer.
Being an electronic genius was a reputation I had, maybe being even into math and science almost exclusively and not wanting to be in the other normal parts of the world.
Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade.
You have to engage with people who are different from you and try to work with their thinking and their mind. That's a real challenge.
For so long, I was controlled and manipulated by other people. Whatever people think of me, I'm finally doing what I want to do.
If you are as happy, my dear sir, on entering this house as I am in leaving it and returning home, you are the happiest man in this country.