Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window.

My goal wasn't to make a ton of money. It was to build good computers. I only started the company when I realized I could be an engineer forever.

At our computer club, we talked about it being a revolution. Computers were going to belong to everyone, and give us power, and free us from the people who owned computers and all that stuff.

My goal wasn't to make a ton of money. It was to build good computers.

What I was proud of was that I used very few parts to build a computer that could actually speak words on a screen and type words on a keyboard and run a programming language that could play games. And I did all this myself.

My whole life had been designing computers I could never build.

But I know newspapers. They have the first amendment and they can tell any lie knowing it's a lie and they're protected if the person's famous or it's a company.

I have always respected education, which is why I actually went back secretly and taught school for eight years.

Atari is a very sad story.

Wherever smart people work, doors are unlocked.

You can make something big when young that will carry you through life. Look at all the big startups like Microsoft, Apple, Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc. They were all started by very young people who stumbled on something of unseen value. You'll know it when you hit a home run.

The best things that capture your imagination are ones you hadn't thought of before and that aren't talked about in the news all the time.

It would be nice to design a real briefcase - you open it up and it's your computer but it also stores your books.

In the end, I hope there's a little note somewhere that says I designed a good computer.

If I designed a computer with 200 chips, I tried to design it with 150. And then I would try to design it with 100. I just tried to find every trick I could in life to design things real tiny.