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.
STEVE WOZNIAKMy whole life had been designing computers I could never build.
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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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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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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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You need the kind of objectivity that makes you forget everything you’ve heard, clear the table, and do a factual study like a scientist would.
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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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My goal wasn’t to make a ton of money. It was to build good computers.
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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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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 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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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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The easier it is to do something, the harder it is to change the way you do it.
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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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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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Imagination is something you do 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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