Steve Wozniak Quotes - Page 2

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

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  Creativity, Creative, Sells

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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.

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  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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• 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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  Running, Home, Apples

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• Everything we did we were setting the tone for the world.

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  World, Tone, Economy

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• 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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  Change, Thinking, Long

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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.

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  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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• You need the kind of objectivity that makes you forget everything you've heard, clear the table, and do a factual study like a scientist would.

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  Objectivity, Forget Everything, Marketing

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

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• 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.

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  Jobs, School, Thinking

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

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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.

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  Design, Shy, Clubs

  Source: www.npr.org

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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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• 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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  Atheist, Thinking, Differences

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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.

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  Jobs, Block, Technology

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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.

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  Keys, Two, People

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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.

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  Technology, Thinking, Ideas

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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.

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  Thinking, Typewriters, Games

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

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  Littles, Computer, Economy

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• When you're designing and inventing the way I did, every minute of your life is put - every neuron in your brain into trying to think about the little code and how you can maybe have one less line of code and a little bit more straightforward from the beginning to the answer. And you don't have time to think about companies and products and how would I build this. So Steve Jobs and I were a very necessary pair.

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  Jobs, Thinking, Design

  "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.

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  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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• Predictions can sound really good if you're good with words and can express them eloquently and give people ideas and inspiration in their head. But I'm not really good at that, so I don't want to.

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  Inspiration, Ideas, People

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

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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.

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  Children, Book, Hero

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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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• 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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  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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• What Steve Jobs and I did-and at the same time Bill Gates and Paul Allen did-we had no savings accounts, no friends that could loan us money. But we had ideas, and I wanted all my life to be a part of a revolution.

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  Jobs, Ideas, No Friends

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

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  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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