How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life.

Objective judgement, now, at this very moment. Unselfish action, now, at this very moment. Willing acceptance, now, at this very moment – of all external events. That’s all you need.

Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already.

He who follows reason in all things is both tranquil and active at the same time, and also cheerful and collected.

Nothing natural is evil.

Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself.

The second step: Concentrate on what you have to do. Fix your eyes on it. Remind yourself that your task is to be a good human being; remind yourself what nature demands of people. Then do it, without hesitation, and speak the truth as you see it. But with kindness. With humility. Without hypocrisy.

The first step: Don’t be anxious. Nature controls it all.

Each of us needs what nature gives us, when nature gives it.

The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.

The best answer to anger is silence

You can build your own things that other people can use. And once you learn that, you’ll never be the same again.

Well, I was thrown out of school a few times.

Leonardo da Vinci was a great artist and a great scientist.

The key thing that comes true is that they had a variety of experiences which they could draw upon, in order to try to solve a problem or to attack a particular dilemma in a kind of unique way.

A lot of people that would have been artists and scientists have gone into this field to express their feeling and so it seemed like the right thing to do.

How do you know the direction to head with products? It boils down to taste. Emerge yourself with the best ideas from the humanities. And integrate them. Pull interests from diverse areas.

On why he made everybody sign the Mac cases: Because the people that worked on it consider themselves and I certainly consider them artists. These are the people that under different circumstances would be painters and poets but because of that time that we live in this new medium has appeared in which to express oneself to one’s fellow species and that’s a medium of computing.

Learning to program teaches you how to think. Computer science is a liberal art.

I started to listen to music a whole lot and I started to read more outside of just science and technology, Shakespeare, Plato. I loved ‘King Lear’.

Woz and I very much liked Bob Dylan’s poetry, and we spent a lot of time thinking about a lot of that stuff.

Besides Dylan, I was interested in Eastern mysticism, which hit the shores at about the same time.

We want to stand at the intersection of computers and humanism.

You’ve baked a really lovely cake, but then you’ve used dog shit for frosting.