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 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.
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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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Imagination is something you do alone.
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Everything we did we were setting the tone for the world.
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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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To give of yourself is much more important than giving a gift you can buy.
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I was born to teach. I have always had this gift with children.
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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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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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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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After the Apple II was introduced, then came the Commodore and the Tandy TRS-80.
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If you try to make such projects, unseen by others, as perfect as any human could, you’ll develop skills that other professionals don’t have.
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A lot of hacking is playing with other people, you know, getting them to do strange things.
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I was born to teach. I have always had this gift with children.
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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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All the best people in life seem to like LINUX.
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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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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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When we first started with Apple computers, it was my dream that everyone would learn to program, and that was how they’d use their computer.
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I’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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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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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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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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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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In 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.
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When you’re providing a service to somebody, you’re the guy they always call when something’s wrong.
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My whole life had been designing computers I could never build.
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