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 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.
STEVE WOZNIAK
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.
STEVE WOZNIAK
When you’re providing a service to somebody, you’re the guy they always call when something’s wrong.
STEVE WOZNIAK
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.
STEVE WOZNIAK
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.”
STEVE WOZNIAK
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.
STEVE WOZNIAK
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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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.
STEVE WOZNIAK
My whole life had been designing computers I could never build.
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With the cloud, you don’t own anything. You already signed it away.
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I just believe in whatever you’re going to do, even if it’s work, have a little bit of fun attitude about it. You can be happy.
STEVE WOZNIAK
There’s nothing that would keep Apple out of the Android market as a secondary phone market.
STEVE WOZNIAK
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.
STEVE WOZNIAK
The easier it is to do something, the harder it is to change the way you do it.
STEVE WOZNIAK
Teachers started recognizing me and praising me for being smart in science and that made me want to be even smarter in science!
STEVE WOZNIAK
My goal wasn’t to make a ton of money. It was to build good computers.
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