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.
STEVE WOZNIAKMy 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.
More Steve Wozniak Quotes
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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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College just didn’t even have computers for an under-curriculum when I started college.
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The first Apple was just a culmination of my whole life.
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After the Apple II was introduced, then came the Commodore and the Tandy TRS-80.
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In the end, I hope there’s a little note somewhere that says I designed a good computer.
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Every dream I’ve ever had in life has come true ten times over.
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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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I really worry about everything going to the cloud.
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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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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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The easier it is to do something, the harder it is to change the way you do it.
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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 was born to teach. I have always had this gift with children.
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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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If you love what you do and are willing to do what it takes, it’s within your reach.
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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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I absolutely do not need a salary or a job, that’s the last thing I need.
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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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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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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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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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I was born to teach. I have always had this gift with children.
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All the best people in life seem to like LINUX.
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Neither one of us could be sure we’d get our money back on this investment, but we just wanted to have company of our own for once because we were best friends.
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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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Not everything in life can go perfectly according to plan. I mean I didn’t keep every girlfriend I ever had.
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