Quotes by Steve Wozniak

“Although I receive a small salary from Apple, I do virtually no real work at the company.”

“Cloud computing is growing, especially as we are all used to having our mobile devices link us to data wherever we are.”

“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.”

“Everything we did we were setting the tone for the world.”

“For some reason I get this key position of being one of two people that started the company that started the revolution.”

“Great culture, care for clients, kind nature, fun team.”

“Hard disks have disappointed me more than most technologies.”

“I absolutely do not need a salary or a job, that’s the last thing I need.”

“I acquired a central ability that was to help me through my entire career: patience.”

“I had a TV set and a typewriter and that made me think a computer should be laid out like a typewriter with a video screen.”

“I have a calendar life that is complicated, so I use BusyCal and Google Calendar. I keep two different browsers open to avoid some confusion.”

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

“I just believe in whatever you’re going to do, even if it’s work, have a little bit of fun attitude about it. You can be happy.”

“I just believe that the way that young people’s minds develop is fascinating.”

“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.”

“I never lie, even to this day. Not even a little.”

“I saw lots of music devices. I loved playing with music devices. And like most of the world, I thought of a music device as a music device. Steve Jobs tends to look beyond that, and he doesn’t see a music device as having any importance at all, he sees music itself to a person as a being the important thing.”

“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!”

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

“I wish to God that Apple and Google were partners in the future.”

“I worked with such concentration and focus and I had hundreds of obscure engineering or programming things in my head. I was just real exceptional in that way.”

“I'm surprised at the extent of the bigotry. But it really plays out when companies or schools take a side and prohibit the other platform at all. We Mac users should be good even when the other side is bad. We should do what we can to accept the other platforms.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“In some parts of life, like mathematics and science, yeah, I was a genius. I would top all the top scores you could ever measure it by.”

“It’s a lot easier to think of an app and wite it than it is to convince people to want it, publicity is crucially important. Marketing is the most important thing.”

“I’m going to give some advice that might be hard to take; work alone, not on a committee, not on a team.”

“My dream was actually just to have a computer some day. If I’d imagined that it meant starting a company to sell them, I probably would have avoided the whole thing.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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 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 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.”

“The biggest benefit in my life comes from my Segway, which I use everywhere I am. If I’m going to San Antonio, for example, I’ll load it in the car and just go everywhere with it.”

“The Homebrew Computer Club was the highlight of my life. I was too shy to ever talk in the club meeting, but the way that I could communicate sometimes was by doing good designs. I was very skilled at a certain type of circuit design.”

“The human is more important than technology. Make things more human.”

“thought it out and came up with reasons why it was a monopoly.”

“To give of yourself is much more important than giving a gift you can buy.”

“Two attributes that have made me successful are the drive to think outside of the box and understanding the user.”

“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.”