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.
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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The best things that capture your imagination are ones you hadn’t thought of before and that aren’t talked about in the news all the time.
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After the Apple II was introduced, then came the Commodore and the Tandy TRS-80.
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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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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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To give of yourself is much more important than giving a gift you can buy.
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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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Atari is a very sad story.
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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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My primary phone is the iPhone. I love the beauty of it. But I wish it did all the things my Android does, I really do.
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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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My whole life had been designing computers I could never build.
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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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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.
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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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Wherever smart people work, doors are unlocked.
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Every dream I’ve ever had in life has come true ten times over.
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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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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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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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The first Apple was just a culmination of my whole life.
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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 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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With the cloud, you don’t own anything. You already signed it away.
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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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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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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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