Steve Wozniak Quotes About Computers

Quotes about: Computers

• The people I recommend the iPhone 4S for are the ones who are already in the Mac world, because it's so compatible, and people who are just scared of computers altogether and don't want to use them. The iPhone is the least frightening thing. For that kind of person who is scared of complexity, well, here's a phone that is simple to use and does what you need it to do.

  Steve Wozniak

  Simple, Iphone, Phones

  "Apple co-founder prefers Android to iPhone", www.foxnews.com. January 16, 2012.

• All of a sudden, we've lost a lot of control,' he said. 'We can't turn off our internet; we can't turn off our smartphones; we can't turn off our computers. You used to ask a smart person a question. Now, who do you ask? It starts with g-o, and it's not God.

  Steve Wozniak

  Smart, Computer, Internet

  "Apple's Steve Wozniak: 'We've lost a lot of control'" by Mark Milian, www.cnn.com. December 08, 2010.

• When we first started with Apple computers, it was my dream that everyone would learn to program, and that was how they'd use their computer.

  Steve Wozniak

  Dream, Apples, Use

  "How Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak Gets Things Done". Interview with Kevin Purdy, lifehacker.com. April 22, 2009.

• Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window.

  Steve Wozniak

  Technology, Computer, Window

  "How Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak Gets Things Done". Interview with Kevin Purdy, lifehacker.com. April 22, 2009.

• My goal wasn't to make a ton of money. It was to build good computers.

  Steve Wozniak

  Money, Goal, Computer

  "Steve Wozniak Offers 4 Pieces of Advice for First-Time Entrepreneurs" by Deep Patel, www.entrepreneur.com. December 9, 2016.

• 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.

  Steve Wozniak

  People, Giving, Being Free

• 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.

  Steve Wozniak

  Thinking, Typewriters, Games

• 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

  Dream, Computer, Starting

• 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.

  Steve Wozniak

  Powerful, People, Greed

• 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.

  Steve Wozniak

  Jobs, School, Thinking

  "A Chat with Computing Pioneer Steve Wozniak". "Talk of the Nation" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. September 29, 2006.

• 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

  Teaching, Years, Skills

  Source: www.npr.org

• In the end, I hope there's a little note somewhere that says I designed a good computer.

  Steve Wozniak

  Littles, Computer, Economy

• College just didn't even have computers for an under-curriculum when I started college.

  Steve Wozniak

  College, Curriculum, Computer

  "A Chat with Computing Pioneer Steve Wozniak". "Talk of the Nation" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. September 29, 2006.

• It would be nice to design a real briefcase - you open it up and it's your computer but it also stores your books.

  Steve Wozniak

  Real, Nice, Book

• 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

  Steve Wozniak

  Life, Real, Design

• It's can you, Steve Wozniak, design the same computer - maybe it's a Varian 620i - can you design it on paper with fewer chips than last month? Can you design it with 79 chips instead of 80 chips? I had played this game so long that I had all these little tricks in my head that I can't even explain... Nothing was wasted; absolutely zero waste. I told this story recently to the Resource Recovery Association, recycling, and they loved to hear I didn't believe in waste.

  Steve Wozniak

  Zero, Believe, Recovery

  "A Chat with Computing Pioneer Steve Wozniak". "Talk of the Nation" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. September 29, 2006.

• 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."

  Steve Wozniak

  Dad, School, House

• 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.

  Steve Wozniak

  Thinking, Years, Ideas

  "A Chat with Computing Pioneer Steve Wozniak". "Talk of the Nation" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. September 29, 2006.

• My whole life had been designing computers I could never build.

  Steve Wozniak

  Life, Design, Computer

• Did you really invent the computer, or am I being pranked right now?

  Steve Wozniak

  Computer, Right Now

• Bill Gates did predict that computers for people made sense because he wrote a basic.

  Steve Wozniak

  People, Bills, Computer

  "A Chat with Computing Pioneer Steve Wozniak". "Talk of the Nation" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. September 29, 2006.

• 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.

  Steve Wozniak

  Running, Games, Play

• 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

  Iphone, Car, Watches

  "Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak Plays Not My Job". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. December 10, 2010.

• 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.

  Steve Wozniak

  Baby, Children, College

  Source: www.npr.org

• 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.

  Steve Wozniak

  Design, Shy, Clubs

  Source: www.npr.org

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