24 Quotes & Sayings By Steve Wozniak

Steve Wozniak is the co-founder of Apple Computer Inc., which he helped to create with Steve Jobs in 1976. A pioneer of the personal computer industry, Wozniak was responsible for many of Apple's most significant innovations, including its early work on mouse-driven graphical user interfaces. As an entrepreneur, Wozniak has founded several companies, most notably Apple Computers Inc., the first successful personal computer company.

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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
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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
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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 no Steve Wozniak
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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, figuring out how to put electronic devices together without so much as cracking a book .. I learned to not 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
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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. Steve Wozniak
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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 wasn't going to tell other people how to do things. I wasn't going to run things ever in my life. I was a non-political person and I was a very non-forceful person. It dated back to a lot of things that happened during the Vietnam War. But I just couldn't run a company. Steve Wozniak
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Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window Steve Wozniak
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In the end, I hope there's a little note somewhere that says I designed a good computer. Steve Wozniak
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Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window. Steve Wozniak
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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
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My goal wasn't to make a ton of money. It was to build good computers. Steve Wozniak
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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
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My whole life had been designing computers I could never build. Steve Wozniak
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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. Steve Wozniak
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Wherever smart people work, doors are unlocked. Steve Wozniak
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But I know newspapers. They have the first amendment and they can tell any lie knowing it's a lie and they're protected if the person's famous or it's a company. Steve Wozniak
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The best things that capture your imagination are ones you hadn't thought of before and that aren't talked about in the news all the time. Steve Wozniak
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All the best people in life seem to like LINUX. Steve Wozniak
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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. Steve Wozniak
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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. Steve Wozniak
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Atari is a very sad story. Steve Wozniak
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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. Steve Wozniak
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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. Steve Wozniak