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.
STEVE WOZNIAKImagination is something you do 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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When you’re providing a service to somebody, you’re the guy they always call when something’s wrong.
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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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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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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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A lot of hacking is playing with other people, you know, getting them to do strange things.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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