Top 100 Wozniak's Quotes
#1. Jobs has within him sort of this conflict, but he doesn't quite see it as a conflict between being hippie-ish and anti-materialistic but wanting to sell things like Wozniak's board. Wanting to create a business.
Walter Isaacson
#2. When you're providing a service to somebody, you're the guy they always call when something's wrong.
Steve Wozniak
#3. 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.
Steve Wozniak
#4. When you don't have the hardware resources, you have to take advantage of what you have inside the chip
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#5. I wanted to be an elementary school teacher my whole life.
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#6. Creative things have to sell to get acknowledged as such.
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#7. He [Steve Jobs] had more of the future vision: We can bring this to everyone; we can start a company; we can sell it.
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#8. Although I receive a small salary from Apple, I do virtually no real work at the company.
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#9. Your first projects aren't the greatest things in the world, and they may have no money value, they may go nowhere, but that is how you learn - you put so much effort into making something right if it is for yourself.
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#10. Wherever smart people work, doors are unlocked.
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#11. People stopped hanging out with me at the point when I stopped doing drugs. All of a sudden they didn't wanna hang out with me anymore. And I would have hung out with them. I mean they were killing themselves, but I still would have hung out with them.
John Wozniak
#12. He's a tremendous guy. And what's more, he's virtually a genius in the field of management.
John Wozniak
#13. You should stay closely connected to the technology when you start your company.
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#14. To give of yourself is much more important than giving a gift you can buy.
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#15. 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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#16. Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window
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#17. In the end, I hope there's a little note somewhere that says I designed a good computer.
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#18. I was born to teach. I have always had this gift with children.
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#19. 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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#20. 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 ...
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#21. Steve Wozniak literally one of the sweetest guys. And that was kind of the thing I had to reconcile: how do I try to do this guy's sweetness justice in some capacity when most of the things I'm doing in the movie are pretty confrontational, and pretty argumentative.
Seth Rogen
#22. 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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#23. 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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#24. In some parts of life, like mathematics and science, yeah, I was a genius. I would top all the top scores you could ever measure it by.
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#25. 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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#26. 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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#27. 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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#28. It would be nice to design a real briefcase - you open it up and it's your computer but it also stores your books.
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#29. 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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#30. 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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#31. There's nothing that would keep Apple out of the Android market as a secondary phone market,
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#32. 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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#33. 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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#34. A song called Never. Which we never play. But it's a great song.
John Wozniak
#35. I see something happening in the world, and I want to share it. It's why, during 9/11, I wrote every few minutes what I saw happening. It's why I write about meeting Steve Wozniak or Bill Gates or Larry Page.
Robert Scoble
#36. 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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#37. 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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#38. 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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#39. Geek it's really more a characteristic where you don't socialize. You don't talk the normal languages.
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#40. My goal wasn't to make a ton of money. It was to build good computers.
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#41. My whole life had been designing computers I could never build.
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#42. 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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#43. 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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#44. I'm also a fan with sticking with the most standard software that millions of other users also use, because you get the benefit of all those other users' problems and solutions.
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#45. A lot of hacking is playing with other people, you know, getting them to do strange things.
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#46. 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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#47. Teachers started recognizing me and praising me for being smart in science and that made me want to be even smarter in science!
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#48. I sold my most valuable possession, but I knew that because I worked at Hewlett Packard, I could buy the next model calculator the very next month for a lower price than I sold the older one for!
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#49. What I was proud of was that I used very few parts to build a computer that could actually speak words on a screen and type words on a keyboard and run a programming language that could play games. And I did all this myself.
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#50. 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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#51. And Communist Russia was so bad because they followed their people, they snooped on them, they arrested them, they put them in secret prisons, they disappeared them.
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#52. 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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#53. Rockets are bad technology. iPhones are good technology
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#54. 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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#55. 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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#56. Did you really invent the computer, or am I being pranked right now?
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#57. 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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#58. When I have spare time, I catch up on things I've had to postpone due to lack of time.
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#59. The easier it is to do something, the harder it is to change the way you do it.
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#60. 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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#61. 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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#62. College just didn't even have computers for an under-curriculum when I started college.
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#63. 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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#64. No, we'll never get back together. We'll remain friends, but I see her going in a completely different direction than me musically. But she'll end up doing really well if she continues on the path she's on. Because she's doing something very original.
John Wozniak
#65. Not everything in life can go perfectly according to plan. I mean I didn't keep every girlfriend I ever had.
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#66. The first Apple was just a culmination of my whole life.
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#67. 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,
Steve Wozniak
#68. I wish to God that Apple and Google were partners in the future.
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#69. Some great people are leaders and others are more lucky, in the right place at the right time. I'd put myself in the latter category. But I'd never call myself a normal designer of anything.
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#71. Everything we did we were setting the tone for the world.
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#72. 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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#73. 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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#74. Right away, I invited on guests like Steve Wozniak, John Draper, and even porn star Danni Ashe, who took her top off in the studio to show us all how hot she was. (Listen up, Howard Stern, I'm following in your footsteps!)
Kevin D. Mitnick
#75. 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.
Steve Wozniak
#76. If Jobs and Wozniak had believed that IBM was the be-all and end-all, there would have been no personal computers.
Jimmy Maher
#77. I remember him telling me that engineering was the highest level of importance you could reach in the world," Steve Wozniak later recalled. "It takes society to a new level.
Walter Isaacson
#78. Everything that has a computer in will fail. Everything in your life, from a watch to a car to a radio, to an iPhone, it will fail if it have a computer in it.
Steve Wozniak
#80. 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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#81. 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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#82. Will we be the gods? Will we be the family pets? Or will we be ants that get stepped on? I don't know about that ... But when I got that thinking in my head about if I'm going to be treated in the future as a pet to these smart machines ... well I'm going to treat my own pet dog really nice.
Steve Wozniak
#83. Steve Jobs doesn't use a Mac, and won't, because it's too crappy in his opinion.
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#84. I just believe that the way that young people's minds develop is fascinating. If you are doing something for a grade or salary or a reward, it doesn't have as much meaning as creating something for yourself and your own life.
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#85. 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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#87. It's also vital to recognize that many people - especially introverts like Steve Wozniak - need extra quiet and privacy in order to do their best work.
Susan Cain
#88. My dream was actually just to have a computer some day. If I'd imagined that it meant starting a company to sell them, I probably would have avoided the whole thing.
Steve Wozniak
#89. 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.
Steve Wozniak
#90. Wozniak began to rankle at Jobs's style. Steve was too tough on people. I wanted our company to feel like a family where we all had fun and shared whatever we made.
Walter Isaacson
#91. I absolutely do not need a salary or a job, that's the last thing I need.
Steve Wozniak
#92. 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)
Steve Wozniak
#93. 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.
Steve Wozniak
#94. 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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#95. 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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#96. 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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#97. 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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#98. 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.
Steve Wozniak
#99. 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.
Steve Wozniak
#100. 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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