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 WOZNIAKBack 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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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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Wherever smart people work, doors are unlocked.
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All the best people in life seem to like LINUX.
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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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Never trust a computer you can’t throw out a window.
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I really worry about everything going to the cloud.
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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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I read Google News and use NetNewsWire to keep up with general and tech news.
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Imagination is something you do alone.
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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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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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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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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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When you stop and think about it, a smartphone is basically a whistle you can carry.
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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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