If Macintosh Hadn't Been Successful, Then I

It Wasn't That Microsoft Was So Brilliant Or Clever In Copying The Mac, It's That The Mac Was A Sitting Duck For 10 Years. That's Apple's Problem: Their Differentiation Evaporated.

Coming Back To America Was, For Me, Much More Of A Culture Shock Than Going To India. The People In The Indian Countryside Don't Use Their Intellect Like We Do, They Use Their Intuition Instead, And Their Intuition Is Far More Developed Than In The Rest Of The World. Intuition Is A Very Powerful Thing, More Powerful Than Intellect In My Opinion. That's Had A Big Impact On My Work.

So [polaroid's Dr. Edwin] Land, At 75, Went Off To Spend The Remainder Of His Life Doing Pure Science, Trying To Crack The Code Of Color Vision. The Man Is A National Treasure. I Don't Understand Why People Like That Can't Be Held Up As Models: This Is The Most Incredible Thing To Be - Not An Astronaut, Not A Football Player - But This.

It Comes Down To Trying To Expose Yourself To The Best Things Humans Have Done. And Then Try To Bring Those Things In To What You're Doing.

I Don't Want To Fail, Of Course. But Even Though I Didn't Know How Bad Things Really Were, I Still Had A Lot To Think About Before I Said Yes. I Had To Consider The Implications For Pixar, For My Family, For My Reputation. I Decided That I Didn't Really Care, Because This Is What I Want To Do. If I Try My Best And Fail, Well, I've Tried My Best.