Steve Jobs discussing programmer productivity in his keynote Q&A from the 1997 WWDC:

The way you get programmer productivity is not by increasing the lines of code per programmer per day. That doesn’t work. The way you get programmer productivity is by eliminating lines of code you have to write.

The line of code that’s the fastest to write, that never breaks, that doesn’t need maintenance, is the line you never had to write.

This isn’t the only gem from that keynote. The entire thing is fantastic and worth watching, if only to see in hindsight what an amazing product visionary Steve is.

In this unrehearsed Q&A session (not a prepared presentation), he lays out many of the ideas that will chart Apple’s course for the next 15 years. Mac OS X, iLife, Xcode, MobileMe, iCloud, and even the iPhone and iPad—the seeds of all of these ideas were clearly already present in Steve’s mind.

Incredible.

Steve Jobs describing Apple’s stance on privacy at the recent D8 Conference:

Privacy means people know what they’re signing up for, in plain English, and repeatedly. That’s what it means.

I’m an optimist. I believe people are smart, and some people want to share more data than other people do. Ask them. Ask them every time. Make them tell you to stop asking them if they get tired of you asking them. Let them know precisely what you’re going to do with their data. That’s what we think.

The privacy discussion begins at about 1:09:30 into the full video of the interview.

Wow. If you haven't seen the iPhone yet, look now. Do it. Apple's always been heavy on the hype, but this time they've created something that really deserves it. This is the most beautiful gadget I've ever seen. I must have one.