Steve Wozniak Quotes & Sayings

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. — Steve Wozniak

I believe you should have a world where you've got to license something at a fair price. — Steve Wozniak

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. — Steve Wozniak

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. — Steve Wozniak

For some reason I get this key position of being one of two people that started the company that started the revolution. — Steve Wozniak

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

A lot of hacking is playing with other people, you know, getting them to do strange things. — Steve Wozniak

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. — Steve Wozniak

My goal wasn't to make a ton of money. It was to build good computers. — Steve Wozniak

Atari is a very sad story. — Steve Wozniak

Not every Apple product makes a big enough difference to me to get instantly, although many do. — Steve Wozniak

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. — Steve Wozniak

Well, I have many models of Prius that got recalled, but I have a new model that didn't get recalled. This new model has an accelerator that goes wild, but only under certain conditions of cruise control. And I can repeat it over and over and over again
safely. — Steve Wozniak

I want to get back to education. When I was in college I paid attention to child psychology portions of our psychology classes. I watch other people work with babies. And I saw the baby as developing like a computer and it intrigued me in my life. I wanted to do that. — Steve Wozniak

It's can you, Steve Wozniak, design the same computer - maybe it's a Varian 620i - can you design it on paper with fewer chips than last month? Can you design it with 79 chips instead of 80 chips?I had played this game so long that I had all these little tricks in my head that I can't even explain. Nothing was wasted; absolutely zero waste. I told this story recently to the Resource Recovery Association, recycling, and they loved to hear I didn't believe in waste. — Steve Wozniak

It's funny how when you're up so late at night for so long your mind can get into these creative places, the kind of creative places that come to you when you're halfway between asleep and awake. — Steve Wozniak

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

Every dream I've ever had in life has come true ten times over. — Steve Wozniak

Your first projects aren't the greatest things in the world, and they may have no money value, they may go nowhere, but that is how you learn - you put so much effort into making something right if it is for yourself. — Steve Wozniak

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

Although I receive a small salary from Apple, I do virtually no real work at the company. — Steve Wozniak

Steve Jobs doesn't use a Mac, and won't, because it's too crappy in his opinion. — Steve Wozniak

Wherever smart people work, doors are unlocked. — Steve Wozniak

Hard disks have disappointed me more than most technologies. — Steve Wozniak

I had no money. I had no savings account.So I would bring down my color TV set, a Sears TV with a cable snaked into it - they had no video-in back in those days - and hooked it up to the circuit of very few chips and then a little keyboard you could type on. And I was trying to impress people with how did he do it with fewer chips than anyone could ever imagine? — Steve Wozniak

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. — Steve Wozniak

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. — Steve Wozniak

I am the person I want to be. I got to teach and had some of the greatest times in my life learning that I had some teaching skills and doing some incredible things teaching 200 hours of computers a year to fifth graders, making them experts at certain things. — Steve Wozniak

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. — Steve Wozniak

When you don't have the hardware resources, you have to take advantage of what you have inside the chip — Steve Wozniak

Artists work best alone. Work alone. — Steve Wozniak

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. — Steve Wozniak

I want to be able to speak with errors in my wording, errors in my grammar. When you type things into Google search, it corrects your words. With speech, I want it to be general enough, smart enough, to know 'No, he couldn't have meant these words that I think he said. He must have really meant something similar.' — Steve Wozniak

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

I never got into Linux. I swear to God, it's only lack of time. I'm past the years of my life where I can really dig into something like running a Linux system. I'm very sympathetic to the whole idea; Linux people always think the way I want to think. — Steve Wozniak

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. — Steve Wozniak

I was born to teach. I have always had this gift with children. — Steve Wozniak

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

In the end, I hope there's a little note somewhere that says I designed a good computer. — Steve Wozniak

Back in high school I told my dad, "I'm going to have a computer someday."
And he said that it cost as much as a house-the downpayment on a house.
And I said, "Well, I'll live in an apartment." — Steve Wozniak

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. — Steve Wozniak

All the best people in life seem to like LINUX. — Steve Wozniak

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. — Steve Wozniak

I absolutely do not need a salary or a job, that's the last thing I need. — Steve Wozniak

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

I have never left the company. I keep a tiny residual salary to this day because that's where my loyalty should be forever. I want to be an "employee" on the company data base. I won't engineer, I'd rather be basically retired, due to my family. (talking about his relationship with Apple Inc) — Steve Wozniak

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

You know what, Steve Jobs is real nice to me. He lets me be an employee and that's one of the biggest honors of my life. — Steve Wozniak

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

Teachers started recognizing me and praising me for being smart in science and that made me want to be even smarter in science! — Steve Wozniak

I want to feel that I own things, — Steve Wozniak

There's nothing that would keep Apple out of the Android market as a secondary phone market, — Steve Wozniak

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

I went and I started teaching computers to young kids, to fifth graders at first, later to sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth graders. I also started teaching teachers. And that was back in the days when we'd wire up the labs ourselves and crimp on the Ethernet connectors and then we would ... — Steve Wozniak

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

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. — Steve Wozniak

When I have spare time, I catch up on things I've had to postpone due to lack of time. — Steve Wozniak

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

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

A mind forever voyaging through strange seas of thought ... alone. — Steve Wozniak

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. — Steve Wozniak

It's a lot easier to think of an app and write it than it is to convince people to want it, — Steve Wozniak

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

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

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

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. — Steve Wozniak

When you stop and think about it, a smartphone is basically a whistle you can carry. — Steve Wozniak

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 Wozniak

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. — Steve Wozniak

If my son wants to be a pimp when he grows up, that's fine with me. I hope he's a good one and enjoys it and doesn't get caught. I'll support him in this. But if he wants to be a network administrator, he's out of the house and not part of my family. — Steve Wozniak

Don't worry that you can't seem to come up with sure billion dollar winners at first. Just do projects for yourself for fun. You'll get better and better. — Steve Wozniak

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

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

I started passing out the schematics and the code listings for the computer, telling everyone here it is. It's small, it's simple, it's inexpensive: Build your own. No idea to start a company. Steve Jobs came by later and say, you know, people are interested. Why don't we start a company? — Steve Wozniak

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. — Steve Wozniak

I had designed -in high school designed hundreds and hundreds of computers over and over and over, so I developed these skills without ever thinking I'd do it in life as job. — Steve Wozniak

My primary phone is the iPhone. I love the beauty of it. But I wish it did all the things my Android does, I really do. — Steve Wozniak

What Steve Jobs and I did-and at the same time Bill Gates and Paul Allen did-we had no savings accounts, no friends that could loan us money. But we had ideas, and I wanted all my life to be a part of a revolution. — Steve Wozniak

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 Wozniak

Bill Gates did predict that computers for people made sense because he wrote a basic. — Steve Wozniak

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

The people I recommend the iPhone 4S for are the ones who are already in the Mac world, because it's so compatible, and people who are just scared of computers altogether and don't want to use them. The iPhone is the least frightening thing. For that kind of person who is scared of complexity, well, here's a phone that is simple to use and does what you need it to do, — Steve Wozniak

After the Apple II was introduced, then came the Commodore and the Tandy TRS-80. — Steve Wozniak

I just believe that the way that young people's minds develop is fascinating. If you are doing something for a grade or salary or a reward, it doesn't have as much meaning as creating something for yourself and your own life. — Steve Wozniak

You have to seek the simplest implementation of a problem solution in order to know when you've reached your limit in that regard. Then it's easy to make tradeoffs, to back off a little, for performance reasons. You can simplify and simplify and simplify yet still find other incredible ways to simplify further. — Steve Wozniak

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

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. — Steve Wozniak

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. — Steve Wozniak

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 ... — Steve Wozniak

Everything we did we were setting the tone for the world. — Steve Wozniak

The easier it is to do something, the harder it is to change the way you do it. — Steve Wozniak

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

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! — Steve Wozniak

I think that the anti-Microsoft sentiment is simply due to their having been so successful selling a lot of crap. — Steve Wozniak

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. — Steve Wozniak

You can make something big when young that will carry you through life. Look at all the big startups like Microsoft, Apple, Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc. They were all started by very young people who stumbled on something of unseen value. You'll know it when you hit a home run. — Steve Wozniak

I thought Microsoft did a lot of things that were good and right building parts of the browser into the operating system. Then I thought it out and came up with reasons why it was a monopoly. — Steve Wozniak

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. — Steve Wozniak

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

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