If you love what you do and are willing to do what it takes, it’s within your reach.
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.
More Steve Wozniak Quotes
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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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Atari is a very sad story.
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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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Back 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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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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In 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.
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Somebody who’s designing something for himself has at least got a market of one that he’s very close to.
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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 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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You’d better have the technology knowledge. I really urge you not to think you can start a whole company and business with just ideas on paper, because you’ll end up owning so few of those ideas.
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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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With the cloud, you don’t own anything. You already signed it away.
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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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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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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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Creative things have to sell to get acknowledged as such.
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I read Google News and use NetNewsWire to keep up with general and tech news.
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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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All the best people in life seem to like LINUX.
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Most 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.
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Our 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.
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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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I absolutely do not need a salary or a job, that’s the last thing I need.
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Geek it’s really more a characteristic where you don’t socialize. You don’t talk the normal languages.
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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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