Steve Wozniak Quotes

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Steve Wozniak

Profession : Businessman

Birth : August 11, 1950

I 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 Wozniak

My goal wasn't to make a ton of money. It was to build good computers. I only started the company when I realized I could be an engineer forever.

Steve Wozniak

Wherever smart people work, doors are unlocked.

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Atari is a very sad story.

Steve Wozniak

Another hero was Tom Swift, in the books. What he stood for, the freedom, the scientific knowledge and being and engineer gave him the ability to invent solutions to problems. He's always been a hero to me. I buy old Tom Swift books now and read them to my own children.

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Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window.

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What I was proud of was that I used very few parts to build a computer that could actually speak words on a screen and type words on a keyboard and run a programming language that could play games. And I did all this myself.

Steve Wozniak

My goal wasn't to make a ton of money. It was to build good computers.

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My whole life had been designing computers I could never build.

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At our computer club, we talked about it being a revolution. Computers were going to belong to everyone, and give us power, and free us from the people who owned computers and all that stuff.

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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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All the best people in life seem to like LINUX.

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There are good things I see on Samsung phones that I wish were in my iPhone. I wish Apple would use them and could use them, and I don't know if Samsung would stop us.

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I had a TV set and a typewriter and that made me think a computer should be laid out like a typewriter with a video screen.

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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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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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Your first projects aren't the greatest things in the world, and they may have no money value, they may go nowhere, but that is how you learn - you put so much effort into making something right if it is for yourself.

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For some reason I get this key position of being one of two people that started the company that started the revolution.

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The first Apple was just a culmination of my whole life.

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