Imagination is something you do alone.
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Imagination is something you do alone.
STEVE WOZNIAKGeek it’s really more a characteristic where you don’t socialize. You don’t talk the normal languages.
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.
STEVE WOZNIAKWhen 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.
STEVE WOZNIAKOur first computers were born not out of greed or ego, but in the revolutionary spirit of helping common people rise above the most powerful institutions.
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 WOZNIAKI’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 WOZNIAKIf 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.
STEVE WOZNIAKIn some parts of life, like mathematics and science, yeah, I was a genius. I would top all the top scores you could ever measure it by.
STEVE WOZNIAKIn the end, I hope there’s a little note somewhere that says I designed a good computer.
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.”
STEVE WOZNIAKFor some reason I get this key position of being one of two people that started the company that started the revolution.
STEVE WOZNIAKIt’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.
STEVE WOZNIAKIf 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.
STEVE WOZNIAKI 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.
STEVE WOZNIAKA lot of hacking is playing with other people, you know, getting them to do strange things.
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