Steve Wozniak Quotes
-
A lot of things seem to be worth almost no money. but if you do them very well, and they help people fill a need, there's a great business you can build around that.
→ -
Don't worry that you can't seem to come up with sure billion dollar winners at first. Just do projects for yourself for fun. You'll get better and better.
→ -
I want to feel that I own things.
→ -
I just was non-political and didn't see myself as a person who could push people around, make their decision, you know, and tell them how lousy their work was.
→ -
I'm surprised at the extent of the bigotry. But it really plays out when companies or schools take a side and prohibit the other platform at all. We Mac users should be good even when the other side is bad. We should do what we can to accept the other platforms.
→ -
A lot of hacking is playing with other people, you know, getting them to do strange things.
→ -
We truly could have used the later Jobs in earlier years at Apple, is what I feel.
→ -
My whole life had been designing computers I could never build.
→ -
I had much more money than you ever need in your life to live on. So I was giving computer labs to school districts. I was - but then I decided you should really give yourself.
→ -
I do not like to talk about the future. I don't like to be one of those people. It's so easy to have a very vague idea and say, oh, computers will be 3D-ish and then 10 years later I'll say I predicted it 10 years ahead. I don't think that's honest and I don't think that's valid and worth anything.
→ -
I wish to God that Apple and Google were partners in the future.
→ -
It's just not right that so many things don't work when they should. I don't think that will change for a long time.
→ -
College just didn't even have computers for an under-curriculum when I started college.
→ -
Bill Gates did predict that computers for people made sense because he wrote a basic.
→ -
I have never left the company. I keep a tiny residual salary to this day because that's where my loyalty should be forever. I want to be an "employee" on the company data base. I won't engineer, I'd rather be basically retired, due to my family. (talking about his relationship with Apple Inc)
→ -
I hate to say it, and Apple never likes it, but I love anything that's hacker oriented. I don't like passing it onto others, or getting things for free. I don't like stealing music one bit, at all.
→ -
I absolutely do not need a salary or a job, that's the last thing I need.
→ -
I'd learned enough about circuitry in high school electronics to know how to drive a TV and get it to draw - shapes of characters and things.
→ -
Steve Jobs didn't really set the direction of my Apple I and Apple II designs but he did the more important part of turning them into a product that would change the world. I don't deny that.
→ -
I worked with such concentration and focus and I had hundreds of obscure engineering or programming things in my head. I was just real exceptional in that way
→ -
He [Steve Jobs] had come from the surplus electronics parts world.So he came from that world, and he said let's sell PC boards for $40. We'll build them for $20 and sell them for $40.
→ -
Not everything in life can go perfectly according to plan. I mean I didn't keep every girlfriend I ever had.
→ -
I went - I had designed - in high school designed hundreds and hundreds of computers over and over and over, so I developed these skills without ever thinking I'd do it in life as job.
→ -
For some reason I get this key position of being one of two people that started the company that started the revolution.
→ -
Being an electronic genius was a reputation I had, maybe being even into math and science almost exclusively and not wanting to be in the other normal parts of the world.
→ -
The best things that capture your imagination are ones you hadn't thought of before and that aren't talked about in the news all the time.
→ -
With the cloud, you don't own anything. You already signed it away.
→ -
I just believe in whatever you're going to do, even if it's work, have a little bit of fun attitude about it. You can be happy.
→ -
I've never really been associated with the hackers very much. I am sympathetic to them. I understand how their mind works. It's like a child that is born and wants to explore every little - open up every little drawer there is and find out how the world works.
→ -
I am the person I want to be. I got to teach and had some of the greatest times in my life learning that I had some teaching skills and doing some incredible things teaching 200 hours of computers a year to fifth graders, making them experts at certain things.
→
Related Authors
-
Josh Gad Voice Actor -
Seth Rogen Comedian -
Ashton Kutcher Actor -
Steve Jobs Entrepreneur -
Andy Hertzfeld Computer Scientist -
Bill Gates Investor -
Mike Markkula Entrepreneur -
John Sculley Businessman -
Tim Berners-Lee Computer Scientist -
Joanna Hoffman Physicist -
Laurene Powell Jobs Business executive -
Mark Zuckerberg Programmer -
Jonathan Ive Designer -
Kevin Mitnick Consultant -
Richard Stallman Activist -
Nolan Bushnell Entrepreneur -
Linus Torvalds Software Engineer -
Tim Cook Business person -
Paul Allen Philanthropist -
Larry Ellison Businessman