Steve Wozniak quotes

Steve Wozniak is an American inventor and computer engineer, best known as the co-founder of Apple Inc. His work on the Apple I and Apple II computers helped launch the personal computing revolution. He continues to inspire innovation and creativity in technology and education. Here are 59 of his quotes:

Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window. (Steve Wozniak)
A lot of hacking is playing with other people, you know, getting them to do strange things. View quote
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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. View quote
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Wherever smart people work, doors are unlocked. View quote
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Steve Jobs doesn't use a Mac, and won't, because it's too crappy in his opinion. View quote
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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. View quote
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I went drinking with Gray Powell and all I got was a lousy iPhone prototype. View quote
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If you love what you do and are willing to do what it 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. View quote
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Soldering things together, putting the chips together, designing them, drawing them on drafting tables - it was so much a passion in my life. And to this day, I'll go stay at the bottom of the org chart being an engineer, because that's where I want to be. View quote
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I also like to ride Segways. How much fun that is! Anybody think that's fun? I hope so... There's an awful lot of people in the world that sneer at Segways because other people are having fun. There must be something bad about it. But I always tell people, that hey, these Segways are so environmentally conscious. I carry four of them in the trunk of my Hummer. View quote
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I wish to God that Apple and Google were partners in the future. (Steve Wozniak)
Artists work best alone. Work alone. View quote
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I wanted my own computer my whole life. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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It had to be that artistically perfect, because it represents yourself when you do a great design. View quote
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All the best people in life seem to like LINUX. View quote
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Everything we did we were setting the tone for the world. View quote
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My goal wasn't to make a ton of money. It was to build good computers. View quote
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Atari is a very sad story. View quote
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Creative things have to sell to get acknowledged as such. (Steve Wozniak)
I think everything I have done in my life, my reasons at the time were right no matter how things worked out. View quote
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I sold my most valuable possession, but I knew that because I worked at Hewlett Packard, I could buy the next model calculator the very next month for a lower price than I sold the older one for! View quote
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My whole life had been designing computers I could never build. View quote
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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. View quote
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Steve Wozniak

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Photo: Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0
Occupation: American Businessman
Born: August 11, 1950
Quotes count: 59
Wikipedia: Steve Wozniak

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