Top 100 Steve Wozniak Quotes
#1. Neither one of us could be sure we'd get our money back on this investment, but we just wanted to have company of our own for once because we were best friends.
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#2. 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.
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#3. My primary phone is the iPhone. I love the beauty of it. But I wish it did all the things my Android does, I really do.
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#4. Everything we did we were setting the tone for the world.
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#6. I wish to God that Apple and Google were partners in the future.
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#7. Like people including Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk have predicted, I agree that the future is scary and very bad for people. If we build these devices to take care of everything for us, eventually they'll think faster than us and they'll get rid of the slow humans to run companies more efficiently,
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#8. The first Apple was just a culmination of my whole life.
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#9. I think that the anti-Microsoft sentiment is simply due to their having been so successful selling a lot of crap.
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#10. I just was non-political and didn't see myself as a person who could push people around, make their decision and tell them how lousy their work was.
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#11. College just didn't even have computers for an under-curriculum when I started college.
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#12. If you love what you do and are willing to do what it takes, it's within your reach. And it'll be worth every minute you spend alone at night, thinking and thinking about what it is you want to design or build. It'll be worth it, I promise.
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#13. I really, really wanted to be successful in my life just based on me and my mind alone ... I didn't ever want it to be an equation that amounted to a result coming from my brain plus something else.
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#14. The easier it is to do something, the harder it is to change the way you do it.
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#15. 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.
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#16. Did you really invent the computer, or am I being pranked right now?
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#17. Another hero was Tom Swift, in the books. What he stood for, the freedom, the scientific knowledge and being and engineer gave him the ability to invent solutions to problems. He's always been a hero to me. I buy old Tom Swift books now and read them to my own children.
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#18. You'd better have the technology knowledge. I really urge you not to think you can start a whole company and business with just ideas on paper, because you'll end up owning so few of those ideas.
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#19. Rockets are bad technology. iPhones are good technology
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#20. 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.
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#21. If my son wants to be a pimp when he grows up, that's fine with me. I hope he's a good one and enjoys it and doesn't get caught. I'll support him in this. But if he wants to be a network administrator, he's out of the house and not part of my family.
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#22. I really believe I know why my designs were better than any other human being, but I don't want to take credit for starting Apple, for turning the world around or anything like that.
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#23. It's funny how when you're up so late at night for so long your mind can get into these creative places, the kind of creative places that come to you when you're halfway between asleep and awake.
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#24. 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.
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#25. But I know newspapers. They have the first amendment and they can tell any lie knowing it's a lie and they're protected if the person's famous or it's a company.
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#26. The Homebrew Computer Club was the highlight of my life. I was too shy to ever talk in the club meeting, but the way that I could communicate sometimes was by doing good designs. I was very skilled at a certain type of circuit design.
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#27. You can make something big when young that will carry you through life. Look at all the big startups like Microsoft, Apple, Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc. They were all started by very young people who stumbled on something of unseen value. You'll know it when you hit a home run.
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#28. 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)
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#29. When the Internet first came, I thought it was just the beacon of freedom. People could communicate with anyone, anywhere, and nobody could stop it.
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#30. Steve Jobs doesn't use a Mac, and won't, because it's too crappy in his opinion.
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#31. Even if you do something that others might consider wrong, you should at least be willing to talk about it and tell your parents what you're doing because you believe it's right.
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#32. You know what, Steve Jobs is real nice to me. He lets me be an employee and that's one of the biggest honors of my life.
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#34. 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.
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#35. My goal wasn't to make a ton of money. It was to build good computers.
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#36. If you try to make such projects, unseen by others, as perfect as any human could, you'll develop skills that other professionals don't have.
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#37. 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.
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#38. Back in high school I told my dad, "I'm going to have a computer someday."
And he said that it cost as much as a house-the downpayment on a house.
And I said, "Well, I'll live in an apartment."
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#39. I went and I started teaching computers to young kids, to fifth graders at first, later to sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth graders. I also started teaching teachers. And that was back in the days when we'd wire up the labs ourselves and crimp on the Ethernet connectors and then we would ...
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#40. Young children were always so important to me. Adults should treat children with more respect. We should put more monies in our schools. I grew up on that side of the coin.
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#41. I was born to teach. I have always had this gift with children.
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#42. In the end, I hope there's a little note somewhere that says I designed a good computer.
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#43. Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window
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#44. 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.
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#45. To give of yourself is much more important than giving a gift you can buy.
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#46. You should stay closely connected to the technology when you start your company.
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#47. Wherever smart people work, doors are unlocked.
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#48. Although I receive a small salary from Apple, I do virtually no real work at the company.
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#49. Creative things have to sell to get acknowledged as such.
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#50. My first transistor radio was the heart of my gadget love today. It fit in my hand and brought me a world of music 24 / 7.
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#51. I learned not to worry so much about the outcome, but to concentrate on the step I was on and to try to do it as perfectly as I could when I was doing it.
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#52. 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.
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#53. A lot of hacking is playing with other people, you know, getting them to do strange things.
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#54. The more we thought, the more they all sounded boring compared to Apple. You didn't have to have a real specific reason for choosing a name when you were a little tiny company of two people; you choose any name you want.
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#55. It's a lot easier to think of an app and write it than it is to convince people to want it,
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#56. My whole life had been designing computers I could never build.
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#57. If I designed a computer with 200 chips, I tried to design it with 150. And then I would try to design it with 100. I just tried to find every trick I could in life to design things real tiny.
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#58. The biggest benefit in my life comes from my Segway, which I use everywhere I am. If I'm going to San Antonio, for example, I'll load it in the car and just go everywhere with it.
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#59. I have always respected education, which is why I actually went back secretly and taught school for eight years.
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#60. I want the entire smartphone, the entire Internet, on my wrist.
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#61. I think everything I have done in my life, my reasons at the time were right no matter how things worked out.
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#62. I read Google News and use NetNewsWire to keep up with general and tech news.
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#63. Steve Jobs made the case to Xerox PARC execs directly that they had great technology but that Apple knew how to make it affordable enough to change the world. This was very open. In the end, Xerox got a large block of Apple stock for sharing the technology. That's not stealing outright.
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#64. I wanted to be a fifth grade teacher because my teacher was so important to me and was giving me the education that was going to take me through life and through this world.
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#65. 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.
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#66. Our first computers were born not out of greed or ego, but in the revolutionary spirit of helping common people rise above the most powerful institutions.
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#67. I started passing out the schematics and the code listings for the computer, telling everyone here it is. It's small, it's simple, it's inexpensive: Build your own. No idea to start a company. Steve Jobs came by later and say, you know, people are interested. Why don't we start a company?
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#68. I wanted to be funny. And I'm always acknowledged for my pranks and jokes nowadays.
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#70. There are good things I see on Samsung phones that I wish were in my iPhone. I wish Apple would use them and could use them, and I don't know if Samsung would stop us.
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#71. I had a TV set and a typewriter and that made me think a computer should be laid out like a typewriter with a video screen.
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#72. Not every Apple product makes a big enough difference to me to get instantly, although many do.
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#73. I don't believe anything really revolutionary has ever been invented by committee ... I'm going to give you some advice that might be hard to take. That advice is: Work alone ... Not on a committee. Not on a team.
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#74. I have a calendar life that is complicated, so I use BusyCal and Google Calendar. I keep two different browsers open to avoid some confusion.
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#75. A mind forever voyaging through strange seas of thought ... alone.
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#76. I want to get back to education. When I was in college I paid attention to child psychology portions of our psychology classes. I watch other people work with babies. And I saw the baby as developing like a computer and it intrigued me in my life. I wanted to do that.
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#77. 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.
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#78. 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.
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#79. With the cloud, you don't own anything. You already signed it away
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#80. I never got into Linux. I swear to God, it's only lack of time. I'm past the years of my life where I can really dig into something like running a Linux system. I'm very sympathetic to the whole idea; Linux people always think the way I want to think.
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#81. When you stop and think about it, a smartphone is basically a whistle you can carry.
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#82. After the Apple II was introduced, then came the Commodore and the Tandy TRS-80.
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#83. There's nothing that would keep Apple out of the Android market as a secondary phone market,
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#84. I don't think I was talking specifically about Steve Jobs. It was just a general philosophy about one person grows up and he's kind of managing companies and every day he's working making sure this is in place and that's in place.
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#85. Somebody who's designing something for himself has at least got a market of one that he's very close to.
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#86. 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.
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#87. Steve Jobs had very strong feelings about what makes a company great, what makes products great. He more or less chose Tim Cook to be in that role, in that position.
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#88. At our computer club, we talked about it being a revolution. Computers were going to belong to everyone, and give us power, and free us from the people who owned computers and all that stuff.
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#89. 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.
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#90. Every dream I've ever had in life has come true ten times over.
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#91. I believe you should have a world where you've got to license something at a fair price.
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#92. Hard disks have disappointed me more than most technologies.
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#93. All the best people in life seem to like LINUX.
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#94. Well, I have many models of Prius that got recalled, but I have a new model that didn't get recalled. This new model has an accelerator that goes wild, but only under certain conditions of cruise control. And I can repeat it over and over and over again
safely.
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#95. For some reason I get this key position of being one of two people that started the company that started the revolution.
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#96. I am also atheist or agnostic (I don't even know the difference). I've never been to church and prefer to think for myself.
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#97. We truly could have used the later Jobs in earlier years at Apple, is what I feel.
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#98. I thought Microsoft did a lot of things that were good and right building parts of the browser into the operating system. Then I thought it out and came up with reasons why it was a monopoly.
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#99. Bill Gates did predict that computers for people made sense because he wrote a basic.
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