Quotes by Steve Wozniak

About Steve Wozniak:

Stephen is an American pioneer of the personal computer revolution of the 1970s (along with Apple Computer co-founder, Steve Jobs). Wozniak is an American inventor, electronics engineer, and computer programmer who single-handedly developed the 1976 Apple I, the computer that launched Apple. He primarily designed the 1977 Apple II, but Jobs oversaw the development of its unusual case and Rod Holt developed the unique power supply.
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Steve Wozniak

I believe you should have a world where you've got to license something at a fair price.

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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

I really, really wanted to be successful in my life just based on me and my mind alone…I didn’t ever want it to be an equation that amounted to a result coming from my brain plus something else.

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All of a sudden, we've lost a lot of control. 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. [ ...

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As soon as he said it was okay to do engineering, that really freed me up. My psychological block was really that I didn't want to start a company. Because I was just afraid. In business and politics, I wasn't going to be a real strong participant. I...

Steve Wozniak

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-...

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I acquired a central ability that was to help me through my entire career: patience. I'm serious. Patience is usually so underrated. I mean, for all these projects, from third grade all the way to eighth grade, I just learned things gradually, figuri...

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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...

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When the Internet first came, I thought it was just the beacon of freedom. People could communicate with anyone, anywhere, and nobody could stop it.

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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 k...

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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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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

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.

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

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

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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

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

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

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Author Bio

  • NameSteve Wozniak
  • DescriptionAmerican inventor, computer engineer and programmer
  • AliasesStephen Gary "Steve" Wozniak; Woz; Stephen Wozniak
  • BornAugust 11, 1950
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionComputer Scientist; Engineer; Programmer
  • AwardsNational Medal Of Technology And Innovation; Grace Murray Hopper Award