Steve Wozniak Quotes - Page 2

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• Creative things have to sell to get acknowledged as such.

  Steve Wozniak

  Creativity, Creative, Sells

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• 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

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• Not everything in life can go perfectly according to plan. I mean I didn't keep every girlfriend I ever had.

  Steve Wozniak

  Girlfriend, Mean, Every Girl

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

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• There's nothing that would keep Apple out of the Android market as a secondary phone market.

  Steve Wozniak

  Phones, Apples, Androids

  "Steve Wozniak: Apple Should Make An Android Phone". Interview With Mat Honan, www.wired.com. February 6, 2014.

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• 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.

  Steve Wozniak

  Jobs, Block, Technology

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• 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.

  Steve Wozniak

  Children, Book, Hero

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• 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.

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• 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.

  Steve Wozniak

  Technology, Thinking, Ideas

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• 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.

  Steve Wozniak

  People, Needs, Helping

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

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• 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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  People, Giving, Being Free

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• I was born to teach. I have always had this gift with children.

  Steve Wozniak

  Children, Optimistic, Born

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• 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.

  Steve Wozniak

  Night, Long, Creative

  Steve Wozniak, Gina Smith (2006). “IWoz: Computer Geek to Cult Icon - Getting to the Core of Apple's Inventor”

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• 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.

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• 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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  Genius, Economy, Mathematics

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• 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.

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  Dream, Computer, Starting

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• When you're about 20 years old, you kind of think out - I figured out that it was better - less good to be successful and better to have a laughing life, laugh more than you frown all through your life. Because on the day you die, which one would you have said had the happier life, the better life? And so I put a lot of humor in my life.

  Steve Wozniak

  Successful, Thinking, Years

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

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• Somebody who's designing something for himself has at least got a market of one that he's very close to.

  Steve Wozniak

  Design

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• 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

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• You have to seek the simplest implementation of a problem solution in order to know when you've reached your limit in that regard. Then it's easy to make tradeoffs, to back off a little, for performance reasons. You can simplify and simplify and simplify yet still find other incredible ways to simplify further.

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  Order, Littles, Way

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• 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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  Believe, Parent, Might

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• 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.

  Steve Wozniak

  Teacher, Teaching, Kids

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

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• 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.

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• For some reason I get this key position of being one of two people that started the company that started the revolution.

  Steve Wozniak

  Keys, Two, People

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• I really worry about everything going to the cloud.

  Steve Wozniak

  Clouds, Worry

  "Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak Thinks Cloud Computing Will Be ‘Horrendous’" By Britney Fitzgerald, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 6, 2012.

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• 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.

  Steve Wozniak

  Skills, Perfect, Trying

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