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.
STEVE WOZNIAKMost 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.
STEVE WOZNIAKA lot of hacking is playing with other people, you know, getting them to do strange things.
STEVE WOZNIAKSome 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 WOZNIAKOur 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.
STEVE WOZNIAKSteve 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.
STEVE WOZNIAKIn 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 WOZNIAKI was born to teach. I have always had this gift with children.
STEVE WOZNIAKWhen you’re providing a service to somebody, you’re the guy they always call when something’s wrong.
STEVE WOZNIAKDon’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.
STEVE WOZNIAKNot everything in life can go perfectly according to plan. I mean I didn’t keep every girlfriend I ever had.
STEVE WOZNIAKPredictions 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 WOZNIAKI 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.
STEVE WOZNIAKBack 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 WOZNIAKSomebody who’s designing something for himself has at least got a market of one that he’s very close to.
STEVE WOZNIAKGeek it’s really more a characteristic where you don’t socialize. You don’t talk the normal languages.
STEVE WOZNIAKEverything we did we were setting the tone for the world.
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