33 Quotes by Jessica Livingston

I didn’t really want to patent it because, for one, I don’t like software patents, and, two, if you patent it, you make it public. Even if you don’t know someone’s infringing, they will still be getting the benefit. Instead, we just chose to keep it a trade secret and not show it to anyone.

You’ve got to say you are a step ahead of where you actually are to move to the step that you want to be at.

The really dramatic growth happens when a startup only has three of four people, so only three or four people see that, whereas tens of thousands see business as it’s practiced by Boeing or Philip Morris.

Wozniak: Well, we added up to the total everything that was needed. If there was anything that neither one of us knew how to do, Steve would do it. He’d just find a way to do it. He was just gung ho and pressing for this company to be successful. And me, I was pretty much only in my technical head with the circuits.

Programmers have not been professionals because they haven’t really cared about quality.

Finding a technical cofounder would have been difficult for me. I was an English major and didn’t know any computer programmers.