Steve Wozniak
Businessman
2 quotes
It would be nice to design a real briefcase - you open it up and it's your computer but it also stores your books.
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.
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.
Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window.
My goal wasn't to make a ton of money. It was to build good computers.
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.
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.
All the best people in life seem to like LINUX.
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.
In the end, I hope there's a little note somewhere that says I designed a good computer.
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.
My whole life had been designing computers I could never build.
Wherever smart people work, doors are unlocked.
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