Our 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.
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.
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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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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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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 wish to God that Apple and Google were partners in the future.
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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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In the end, I hope there’s a little note somewhere that says I designed a good computer.
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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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Steve 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.
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Steve Jobs doesn’t use a Mac, and won’t, because it’s too crappy in his opinion.
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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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Imagination is something you do alone.
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Atari is a very sad story.
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When you stop and think about it, a smartphone is basically a whistle you can carry.
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To give of yourself is much more important than giving a gift you can buy.
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Never trust a computer you can’t throw out a window.
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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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All the best people in life seem to like LINUX.
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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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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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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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