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.
STEVE WOZNIAKYou’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.
More Steve Wozniak Quotes
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Don’t worry that you can’t seem to come up with sure billion dollar winners at first. Just do projects for yourself for fun. You’ll get better and better.
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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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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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I absolutely do not need a salary or a job, that’s the last thing I need.
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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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With the cloud, you don’t own anything. You already signed it away.
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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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The first Apple was just a culmination of my whole life.
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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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After the Apple II was introduced, then came the Commodore and the Tandy TRS-80.
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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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My goal wasn’t to make a ton of money. It was to build good computers.
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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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Everything we did we were setting the tone for the world.
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Every dream I’ve ever had in life has come true ten times over.
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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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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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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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Wherever smart people work, doors are unlocked.
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There’s nothing that would keep Apple out of the Android market as a secondary phone market.
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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 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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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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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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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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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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