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.
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.
More Steve Wozniak Quotes
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With the cloud, you don’t own anything. You already signed it away.
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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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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.
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I was born to teach. I have always had this gift with children.
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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 was born to teach. I have always had this gift with children.
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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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Steve Jobs doesn’t use a Mac, and won’t, because it’s too crappy in his opinion.
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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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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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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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My whole life had been designing computers I could never build.
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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 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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In the end, I hope there’s a little note somewhere that says I designed a good computer.
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