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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Teachers started recognizing me and praising me for being smart in science and that made me want to be even smarter in science!
STEVE WOZNIAKImagination is something you do alone.
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.
STEVE WOZNIAKI 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 WOZNIAKMy goal wasn’t to make a ton of money. It was to build good computers.
STEVE WOZNIAKSome 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.
STEVE WOZNIAKGeek it’s really more a characteristic where you don’t socialize. You don’t talk the normal languages.
STEVE WOZNIAKWhen 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 WOZNIAKBack 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 WOZNIAKIt’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.
STEVE WOZNIAKWith the cloud, you don’t own anything. You already signed it away.
STEVE WOZNIAKEven 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.
STEVE WOZNIAKSteve Jobs had very strong feelings about what makes a company great, what makes products great. He more or less chose Tim Cook to be in that role, in that position.
STEVE WOZNIAKEverything we did we were setting the tone for the world.
STEVE WOZNIAKNever trust a computer you can’t throw out a window.
STEVE WOZNIAKPredictions 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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