Steve Jobs didn’t really set the direction of my Apple I and Apple II designs but he did the more important part of turning them into a product that would change the world. I don’t deny 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.
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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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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 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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Some great people are leaders and others are more lucky, in the right place at the right time. I’d put myself in the latter category. But I’d never call myself a normal designer of anything.
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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.
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I read Google News and use NetNewsWire to keep up with general and tech news.
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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 the end, I hope there’s a little note somewhere that says I designed a good computer.
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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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Everything that has a computer in will fail. Everything in your life, from a watch to a car to a radio, to an iPhone, it will fail if it have a computer in it.
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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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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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Never trust a computer you can’t throw out a window.
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When you stop and think about it, a smartphone is basically a whistle you can carry.
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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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