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 WOZNIAKYou’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 WOZNIAKIf you love what you do and are willing to do what it takes, it’s within your reach.
STEVE WOZNIAKImagination is something you do alone.
STEVE WOZNIAKYou know what, Steve Jobs is real nice to me. He lets me be an employee and that’s one of the biggest honors of my life.
STEVE WOZNIAKI 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.
STEVE WOZNIAKTeachers started recognizing me and praising me for being smart in science and that made me want to be even smarter in science!
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 WOZNIAKIf 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.
STEVE WOZNIAKIt’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 WOZNIAKEven 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.
STEVE WOZNIAKA 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.
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 WOZNIAKCreative things have to sell to get acknowledged as such.
STEVE WOZNIAKI was born to teach. I have always had this gift with children.
STEVE WOZNIAKWhen you stop and think about it, a smartphone is basically a whistle you can carry.
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.
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