Steve Wozniak famous quotes

I wish to God that Apple and Google were partners in the future,
-- Steve Wozniak

#Apples #Google #Wish

The biggest benefit in my life comes from my Segway, which I use everywhere I am. If I'm going to San Antonio, for example, I'll load it in the car and just go everywhere with it.
-- Steve Wozniak

#Car #Use #Benefits

My primary phone is the iPhone. I love the beauty of it. But I wish it did all the things my Android does, I really do.
-- Steve Wozniak

#Phones #Iphone #Wish

I am the person I want to be. I got to teach and had some of the greatest times in my life learning that I had some teaching skills and doing some incredible things teaching 200 hours of computers a year to fifth graders, making them experts at certain things.
-- Steve Wozniak

#Teaching #Years #Skills

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

#Worry #Trying #Steps

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.
-- Steve Wozniak

#Attitude #Fun #Believe

I was born to teach. I have always had this gift with children.
-- Steve Wozniak

#Children #Optimistic #Born

Everything that has a computer in will fail. Everything in your life, from a watch to a car to a radio, to an iPhone, it will fail if it have a computer in it.
-- Steve Wozniak

#Iphone #Car #Radio

A lot of hacking is playing with other people, you know, getting them to do strange things.
-- Steve Wozniak

#People #Hacking #Strange

Being an electronic genius was a reputation I had, maybe being even into math and science almost exclusively and not wanting to be in the other normal parts of the world.
-- Steve Wozniak

#Math #World #Normal

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 Wozniak

#Dream #Computer #Starting

Geek it's really more a characteristic where you don't socialize. You don't talk the normal languages.
-- Steve Wozniak

#Normal #Language #Geek

I hope you're as lucky as I am. The world needs inventors--great ones. You can be one. If you love what you do and are willing to do what it really takes, it's within your reach. And it'll be worth every minute you spend alone at night, thinking and thinking about what it is you want to design or build. It'll be worth it, I promise.
-- Steve Wozniak

#Night #Thinking #Design

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.
-- Steve Wozniak

#Jobs #School #Thinking

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 Wozniak

#Artist #Shy #Introvert

College just didn't even have computers for an under-curriculum when I started college.
-- Steve Wozniak

#College #Curriculum #Computer

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.
-- Steve Wozniak

#Thinking #Typewriters #Games

It's can you, Steve Wozniak, design the same computer - maybe it's a Varian 620i - can you design it on paper with fewer chips than last month? Can you design it with 79 chips instead of 80 chips?I had played this game so long that I had all these little tricks in my head that I can't even explain. Nothing was wasted; absolutely zero waste. I told this story recently to the Resource Recovery Association, recycling, and they loved to hear I didn't believe in waste.
-- Steve Wozniak

#Zero #Believe #Recovery

All of a sudden, we’ve lost a lot of control,’ he said. ‘We can’t turn off our internet; we can’t turn off our smartphones; we can’t turn off our computers. You used to ask a smart person a question. Now, who do you ask? It starts with g-o, and it’s not God…
-- Steve Wozniak

#Smart #Computer #Internet

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.
-- Steve Wozniak

#Investment #Wanted #Company

All the best people in life seem to like LINUX.
-- Steve Wozniak

#Life #People #Linux

I hate to say it, and Apple never likes it, but I love anything that's hacker oriented. I don't like passing it onto others, or getting things for free. I don't like stealing music one bit, at all ...
-- Steve Wozniak

#Hate #Apples #Likes

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.
-- Steve Wozniak

#Genius #Mathematics #Economy

The way I did it, every job was A+.
-- Steve Wozniak

#Jobs #Way

Creative things have to sell to get acknowledged as such.
-- Steve Wozniak

#Creativity #Creative

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 Wozniak

#Greatness #People #Leader

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.
-- Steve Wozniak

#Dream #Apples #Firsts

I'm surprised at the extent of the bigotry. But it really plays out when companies or schools take a side and prohibit the other platform at all. We Mac users should be good even when the other side is bad. We should do what we can to accept the other platforms.
-- Steve Wozniak

#School #Play #Racist

I never got into Linux. I swear to God, it's only lack of time. I'm past the years of my life where I can really dig into something like running a Linux system. I'm very sympathetic to the whole idea; Linux people always think the way I want to think.
-- Steve Wozniak

#Running #Past #Thinking

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

#Money #Goal #Computer

I never sensed really bad blood between Microsoft and Apple. A lot of Macintosh users feel badly about PCs and do have some bad feelings. I call them Macintosh bigots a little. They say, oh, no, only the Macintosh is the good one, and I don't like to be that way.
-- Steve Wozniak

#Apples #Blood #Feelings

Every dream I've ever had in life has come true ten times over.
-- Steve Wozniak

#Life #Dream

I think Apple's revenge is just the fact that Windows, you know, PCs all became Macintoshes in a way.
-- Steve Wozniak

#Revenge #Thinking #Apples

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.
-- Steve Wozniak

#Giving #People #Being Free

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.
-- Steve Wozniak

#People #Needs #Helping

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

#Apples #Firsts #Culmination

I have such a crowded life and crowded schedule. When people send me a link with a gadget, I'll look at it and buy it if it looks interesting, but I don't have time to check out everything I'd like to.
-- Steve Wozniak

#Interesting #People #Looks

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

#Technology #Computer #Window

You should stay closely connected to the technology when you start your company.
-- Steve Wozniak

#Technology #Should #Company

Everything we did we were setting the tone for the world.
-- Steve Wozniak

#Tone #World #Economy

I'm also a fan with sticking with the most standard software that millions of other users also use, because you get the benefit of all those other users' problems and solutions.
-- Steve Wozniak

#Use #Benefits #Fans

Wherever smart people work, doors are unlocked.
-- Steve Wozniak

#Work #Smart #Doors

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 Wozniak

#Technology #Thinking #Ideas

If you love what you do and are willing to do what it takes, it's within your reach.
-- Steve Wozniak

#Willing

I absolutely do not need a salary or a job, that's the last thing I need.
-- Steve Wozniak

#Jobs #Needs #Lasts

You can make something big when young that will carry you through life. Look at all the big startups like Microsoft, Apple, Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc. They were all started by very young people who stumbled on something of unseen value. You'll know it when you hit a home run.
-- Steve Wozniak

#Running #Home #Apples

Bill Gates did predict that computers for people made sense because he wrote a basic.
-- Steve Wozniak

#People #Bills #Computer

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

#Keys #Two #People

Predictions 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 Wozniak

#Inspiration #Ideas #Giving

All through time in Apple products, even from our very first ones, that's how he [ Steve Jobs] looked at the world, that you don't really want a piece of technology, a certain type of chip. What you want is a solution to a problem in life, some cause, some issue that you want in your life that'll help you. And it's how do you make that almost one step - say it and it happens.
-- Steve Wozniak

#Jobs #Technology #Apples

I saw lots of music devices. I loved playing with music devices. And like most of the world, I thought of a music device as a music device. Steve Jobs tends to look beyond that, and he doesn't see a music device as having any importance at all,he sees music itself to a person as a being the important thing.
-- Steve Wozniak

#Jobs #Important #Looks

I just was non-political and didn't see myself as a person who could push people around, make their decision and tell them how lousy their work was.
-- Steve Wozniak

#People #Political #Decision

He [Steve Jobs] had come from the surplus electronics parts world.So he came from that world, and he said let's sell PC boards for $40. We'll build them for $20 and sell them for $40.
-- Steve Wozniak

#Jobs #World #Electronics

When you're designing and inventing the way I did, every minute of your life is put - every neuron in your brain into trying to think about the little code and how you can maybe have one less line of code and a little bit more straightforward from the beginning to the answer. And you don't have time to think about companies and products and how would I build this. So Steve Jobs and I were a very necessary pair.
-- Steve Wozniak

#Jobs #Thinking #Design

I started passing out the schematics and the code listings for the computer, telling everyone here it is. It's small, it's simple, it's inexpensive: Build your own. No idea to start a company. Steve Jobs came by later and say, you know, people are interested. Why don't we start a company?
-- Steve Wozniak

#Jobs #Simple #Ideas

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.
-- Steve Wozniak

#Believe #Apples #Design

I had no money. I had no savings account.So I would bring down my color TV set, a Sears TV with a cable snaked into it - they had no video-in back in those days - and hooked it up to the circuit of very few chips and then a little keyboard you could type on. And I was trying to impress people with how did he do it with fewer chips than anyone could ever imagine?
-- Steve Wozniak

#Color #People #Trying

The Homebrew Computer Club was the highlight of my life. I was too shy to ever talk in the club meeting, but the way that I could communicate sometimes was by doing good designs. I was very skilled at a certain type of circuit design.
-- Steve Wozniak

#Design #Shy #Clubs

I've never really been associated with the hackers very much. I am sympathetic to them. I understand how their mind works. It's like a child that is born and wants to explore every little - open up every little drawer there is and find out how the world works.
-- Steve Wozniak

#Children #Mind #World

When you're about 20 years old, you kind of think out - I figured out that it was better - less good to be successful and better to have a laughing life, laugh more than you frown all through your life. Because on the day you die, which one would you have said had the happier life, the better life? And so I put a lot of humor in my life.
-- Steve Wozniak

#Successful #Thinking #Years

I do not like to talk about the future. I don't like to be one of those people. It's so easy to have a very vague idea and say, oh, computers will be 3D-ish and then 10 years later I'll say I predicted it 10 years ahead. I don't think that's honest and I don't think that's valid and worth anything.
-- Steve Wozniak

#Thinking #Years #Ideas

I was kind of amazed because I first found out about blue boxes in an article in Esquire magazine labeled fiction. That article was the most truthful article I've ever read in my life. That article was so truthful, and it told about a mistake in the phone company that let you dial phone calls anywhere in the world. What an amazing thing to discover.
-- Steve Wozniak

#Mistake #Blue #Phones

Pretty much I want to be Steve Wozniak, who I decided I was at a young age and not change. I want to go back to school and get my college degree like I would have without Apple.I want to teach young kids like I would have without Apple. And part of it is I'm accessible. I'm open. And so many people e-mail me and get me. And as much as I can I try to answer people, listen to them, be polite and say yes.
-- Steve Wozniak

#School #Kids #College

I wanted to be an elementary school teacher my whole life.
-- Steve Wozniak

#Teacher #School #Whole Life

I wanted to be a fifth grade teacher because my teacher was so important to me and was giving me the education that was going to take me through life and through this world.
-- Steve Wozniak

#Teacher #Giving #Important

Young children were always so important to me. Adults should treat children with more respect. We should put more monies in our schools. I grew up on that side of the coin.
-- Steve Wozniak

#Children #School #Important

I want to get back to education. When I was in college I paid attention to child psychology portions of our psychology classes. I watch other people work with babies. And I saw the baby as developing like a computer and it intrigued me in my life. I wanted to do that.
-- Steve Wozniak

#Baby #Children #College

I had much more money than you ever need in your life to live on. So I was giving computer labs to school districts. I was - but then I decided you should really give yourself.
-- Steve Wozniak

#School #Giving #Labs

I went and I started teaching computers to young kids, to fifth graders at first, later to sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth graders. I also started teaching teachers. And that was back in the days when we'd wire up the labs ourselves and crimp on the Ethernet connectors and then we would...
-- Steve Wozniak

#Teacher #Teaching #Kids

Not everything in life can go perfectly according to plan. I mean I didn't keep every girlfriend I ever had.
-- Steve Wozniak

#Girlfriend #Mean #Every Girl

I wanted to be funny. And I'm always acknowledged for my pranks and jokes nowadays.
-- Steve Wozniak

#Pranks #Wanted #Jokes

When you're providing a service to somebody, you're the guy they always call when something's wrong.
-- Steve Wozniak

#Guy

I don't think I was talking specifically about Steve Jobs. It was just a general philosophy about one person grows up and he's kind of managing companies and every day he's working making sure this is in place and that's in place.
-- Steve Wozniak

#Jobs #Growing Up #Philosophy

There's nothing that would keep Apple out of the Android market as a secondary phone market,
-- Steve Wozniak

#Apples #Phones #Androids

I am also atheist or agnostic (I don't even know the difference). I've never been to church and prefer to think for myself.
-- Steve Wozniak

#Atheist #Thinking #Differences

The easier it is to do something, the harder it is to change the way you do it.
-- Steve Wozniak

#Way #Culture #Easier

Like people including Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk have predicted, I agree that the future is scary and very bad for people. If we build these devices to take care of everything for us, eventually they'll think faster than us and they'll get rid of the slow humans to run companies more efficiently,
-- Steve Wozniak

#Running #Thinking #People

Will we be the gods? Will we be the family pets? Or will we be ants that get stepped on? I don't know about that ... But when I got that thinking in my head about if I'm going to be treated in the future as a pet to these smart machines ... well I'm going to treat my own pet dog really nice.
-- Steve Wozniak

#Dog #Nice #Smart

I believe you should have a world where you’ve got to license something at a fair price. 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.
-- Steve Wozniak

#Believe #Phones #Apples

Steve Jobs doesn't use a Mac, and won't, because it's too crappy in his opinion.
-- Steve Wozniak

#Jobs #Use #Opinion

The people I recommend the iPhone 4S for are the ones who are already in the Mac world, because it’s so compatible, and people who are just scared of computers altogether and don’t want to use them. The iPhone is the least frightening thing. For that kind of person who is scared of complexity, well, here’s a phone that is simple to use and does what you need it to do,
-- Steve Wozniak

#Simple #Phones #Iphone

It's a lot easier to think of an app and write it than it is to convince people to want it,
-- Steve Wozniak

#Writing #Thinking #People

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
-- Steve Wozniak

#Real #Design #Trying

I thought Microsoft did a lot of things that were good and right building parts of the browser into the operating system. Then I thought it out and came up with reasons why it was a monopoly
-- Steve Wozniak

#Microsoft #Building #Reason

Rockets are bad technology. iPhones are good technology
-- Steve Wozniak

#Technology #Iphone #Rockets

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
-- Steve Wozniak

#Jobs #Apples #Design

I worked with such concentration and focus and I had hundreds of obscure engineering or programming things in my head. I was just real exceptional in that way
-- Steve Wozniak

#Real #Engineering #Focus

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.
-- Steve Wozniak

#Fun #Worry #Get Better

If my son wants to be a pimp when he grows up, that's fine with me. I hope he's a good one and enjoys it and doesn't get caught. I'll support him in this. But if he wants to be a network administrator, he's out of the house and not part of my family.
-- Steve Wozniak

#Jobs #Growing Up #Son

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.
-- Steve Wozniak

#Believe #Parent #Might

I have never left the company. I keep a tiny residual salary to this day because that's where my loyalty should be forever. I want to be an "employee" on the company data base. I won't engineer, I'd rather be basically retired, due to my family. (talking about his relationship with Apple Inc)
-- Steve Wozniak

#Loyalty #Commitment #Talking

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.
-- Steve Wozniak

#Change #Thinking #Long

It would be nice to design a real briefcase - you open it up and it's your computer but it also stores your books.
-- Steve Wozniak

#Real #Nice #Book

In the end, I hope there's a little note somewhere that says I designed a good computer.
-- Steve Wozniak

#Littles #Computer #Economy

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.
-- Steve Wozniak

#Skills #Perfect #Trying

I think everything I have done in my life, my reasons at the time were right no matter how things worked out.
-- Steve Wozniak

#Life #Thinking #Matter

I read Google News and use NetNewsWire to keep up with general and tech news.
-- Steve Wozniak

#Google #News #Use

Atari is a very sad story.
-- Steve Wozniak

#Stories #Very Sad

After the Apple II was introduced, then came the Commodore and the Tandy TRS-80.
-- Steve Wozniak

#Apples #Economy

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.
-- Steve Wozniak

#Children #Book #Hero