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 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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My goal wasn’t to make a ton of money. It was to build good computers.
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Predictions can sound really good if you’re good with words and can express them eloquently and give people ideas and inspiration in their head. But I’m not really good at that, so I don’t want to.
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Creative things have to sell to get acknowledged as such.
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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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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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I think that the anti-Microsoft sentiment is simply due to their having been so successful selling a lot of crap.
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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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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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Bill Gates did predict that computers for people made sense because he wrote a basic.
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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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Wherever smart people work, doors are unlocked.
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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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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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I read Google News and use NetNewsWire to keep up with general and tech news.
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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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