I absolutely do not need a salary or a job, that’s the last thing I need.
STEVE WOZNIAKOur 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.
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My whole life had been designing computers I could never build.
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Wherever smart people work, doors are unlocked.
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I was born to teach. I have always had this gift with children.
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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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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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My primary phone is the iPhone. I love the beauty of it. But I wish it did all the things my Android does, I really do.
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My goal wasn’t to make a ton of money. It was to build good computers.
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When you stop and think about it, a smartphone is basically a whistle you can carry.
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When you’re providing a service to somebody, you’re the guy they always call when something’s wrong.
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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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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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A lot of hacking is playing with other people, you know, getting them to do strange things.
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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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Some 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.
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I’d learned enough about circuitry in high school electronics to know how to drive a TV and get it to draw – shapes of characters and things.
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I think that the anti-Microsoft sentiment is simply due to their having been so successful selling a lot of crap.
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You know what, Steve Jobs is real nice to me. He lets me be an employee and that’s one of the biggest honors of my life.
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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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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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The first Apple was just a culmination of my whole life.
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Creative things have to sell to get acknowledged as such.
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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 just was non-political and didn’t see myself as a person who could push people around, make their decision, you know, and tell them how lousy their work was.
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I really worry about everything going to the cloud.
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I read Google News and use NetNewsWire to keep up with general and tech news.
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