After the Apple II was introduced, then came the Commodore and the Tandy TRS-80.
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.
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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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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.
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Every dream I’ve ever had in life has come true ten times over.
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The first Apple was just a culmination of my whole life.
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Neither one of us could be sure we’d get our money back on this investment, but we just wanted to have company of our own for once because we were best friends.
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Atari is a very sad story.
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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.”
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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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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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College just didn’t even have computers for an under-curriculum when I started college.
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I absolutely do not need a salary or a job, that’s the last thing I need.
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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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Steve Jobs doesn’t use a Mac, and won’t, because it’s too crappy in his opinion.
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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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If you try to make such projects, unseen by others, as perfect as any human could, you’ll develop skills that other professionals don’t have.
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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 easier it is to do something, the harder it is to change the way you do it.
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I really worry about everything going to the cloud.
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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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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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A lot of hacking is playing with other people, you know, getting them to do strange things.
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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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Everything that has a computer in will fail. Everything in your life, from a watch to a car to a radio, to an iPhone, it will fail if it have a computer in it.
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I just believe in whatever you’re going to do, even if it’s work, have a little bit of fun attitude about it. You can be happy.
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To give of yourself is much more important than giving a gift you can buy.
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I wish to God that Apple and Google were partners in the future.
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