星期五，在我告诉约翰•斯卡利谁将加入我的新公司后，他声称苹果公司愿意讨论、协商与我新创建的公司之间在某些领域可以开展的合作。
但随后，公司好像又对我和我的新公司采取了敌视的态度。相应地，我必须坚持我的辞呈马上被批准。我希望苹果公司的任何生命都是被迫发表的，我也希望苹果公司能明白是我首先提出辞去董事会主席这一职务的。
让约翰•斯卡利见鬼去吧！
让苹果董事会见鬼去吧！
我们要改变世界！
我从今天早晨的报纸上得知，苹果公司正在考虑把我从董事会主席的位置上赶下去……我只有30岁，我还想为电脑事业贡献自己的力量，也希望取得一定的成就。我们毕竟在一起取得了那么大的成就，我衷心希望我们的分离是友善的，也是让人愉快的。
辞职信，1985年9月17日《追随内心》，1985年辞职信，1985年9月17日
if apple bees a plabsp;where puters are a odity item, where the romanbsp;is gone, and where people fet that puters are the most incredible iion that man has ever ied, i’ll feel i have lost apple. but if i'm a million miles away,and all those people still feel those things…then i will feel that my genes are still there. i really didn't know what to do for a few months. i felt that i had let the previous geion of entrepreneurs down - that i had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me. i met with david packard and bob noybsp;and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly. i was a very publibsp;failure, and i even thought about running away from the valley. but something slowly began to dawn on me - i still loved what i did. the turn of events at apple had not ged that one bit. i had been rejected, but i was still in love. and so i decided to start over#小说 .
newsweek,september 29,1985stanford e speebsp;june2005
如果苹果公司变成了一个把电脑只当成商品的地方，所有的浪漫情怀就会消失殆尽，人们也会忘记了电脑是人类最不可思议的发明，如果是这样的话，我会感到我已经失去了苹果。但如果我离开之后，所有的苹果人还能感到浪漫的情怀，感到电脑是最不可思议的发明……我会觉得我的精神仍在这里，从未离开。</p>