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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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.
STEVE WOZNIAKTeachers started recognizing me and praising me for being smart in science and that made me want to be even smarter in science!
STEVE WOZNIAKWhen you stop and think about it, a smartphone is basically a whistle you can carry.
STEVE WOZNIAKPredictions 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.
STEVE WOZNIAKA 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 WOZNIAKA lot of hacking is playing with other people, you know, getting them to do strange things.
STEVE WOZNIAKSteve Jobs doesn’t use a Mac, and won’t, because it’s too crappy in his opinion.
STEVE WOZNIAKCollege just didn’t even have computers for an under-curriculum when I started college.
STEVE WOZNIAKYou 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.
STEVE WOZNIAKMost 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.
STEVE WOZNIAKImagination is something you do alone.
STEVE WOZNIAKMy goal wasn’t to make a ton of money. It was to build good computers.
STEVE WOZNIAKAtari is a very sad story.
STEVE WOZNIAKYoung 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.
STEVE WOZNIAKEven 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.
STEVE WOZNIAKI 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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