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 WOZNIAKIn 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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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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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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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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I was born to teach. I have always had this gift with children.
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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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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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Never trust a computer you can’t throw out a window.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Most inventors and engineers I’ve met are like me. They’re shy and they live in their heads. The very best of them are artists. And artists work best alone.
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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.
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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.
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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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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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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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Geek it’s really more a characteristic where you don’t socialize. You don’t talk the normal languages.
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When you stop and think about it, a smartphone is basically a whistle you can carry.
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I wish to God that Apple and Google were partners in the future.
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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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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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With the cloud, you don’t own anything. You already signed it away.
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