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.

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

I had a TV set and a typewriter and that made me think a computer should be laid out like a typewriter with a video screen.

I want to be able to speak with errors in my wording, errors in my grammar. When you type things into Google search, it corrects your words. With speech, I want it to be general enough, smart enough, to know 'No, he couldn't have meant these words that I think he said. He must have really meant something similar.'

In some parts of life, like mathematics and science, yeah, I was a genius. I would top all the top scores you could ever measure it by.

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.