"Steve Jobs is a national treasure. He is so visionary, and so bright. I had to fire him, though."
"I mean I wasn't a founder in the sense that I contributed anything scientifically but in the sense that I signed the corporation papers and, and owned founder's stock."
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Source: Interview, silicongenesis.stanford.edu. November 12, 2002.
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