Steve Wozniak Quotes

And Communist Russia was so bad because they followed their people, they snooped on them, they arrested them, they put them in secret prisons, they disappeared them.

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.

Hard disks have disappointed me more than most technologies.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

Atari is a very sad story.

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.

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.

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.

Somebody who's designing something for himself has at least got a market of one that he's very close to.

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

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

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.

There's nothing that would keep Apple out of the Android market as a secondary phone market.

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

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.

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.

With the cloud, you don't own anything. You already signed it away.

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 Jobs had very strong feelings about what makes a company great, what makes products great. He more or less chose Tim Cook to be in that role, in that position.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Did you really invent the computer, or am I being pranked right now?

Rockets are bad technology. iPhones are good technology

It's a lot easier to think of an app and write it than it is to convince people to want it.

I have always respected education, which is why I actually went back secretly and taught school for eight years.

Artists work best alone. Work alone.

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

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

We truly could have used the later Jobs in earlier years at Apple, is what I feel.

I want to feel that I own things.

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.

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

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

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.

He [Steve Jobs] had more of the future vision: We can bring this to everyone; we can start a company; we can sell it.

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.

I went drinking with Gray Powell and all I got was a lousy iPhone prototype.

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.

Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window