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.
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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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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Creative things have to sell to get acknowledged as such.
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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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A lot of hacking is playing with other people, you know, getting them to do strange things.
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Every dream I’ve ever had in life has come true ten times over.
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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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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 wish to God that Apple and Google were partners in the future.
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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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Everything we did we were setting the tone for the world.
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My whole life had been designing computers I could never build.
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Imagination is something you do alone.
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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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I absolutely do not need a salary or a job, that’s the last thing I need.
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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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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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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 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.
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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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I was born to teach. I have always had this gift with children.
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I really worry about everything going to the cloud.
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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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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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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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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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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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