A biography for Steve Wozniakhasn’t been written yet.
“My first transistor radio was the heart of my gadget love today. It fit in my hand and brought me a world of music 24 / 7.”
“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.”
“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.”
“My whole life had been designing computers I could never build.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I think everything I have done in my life, my reasons at the time were right no matter how things worked out.”
“The more we thought, the more they all sounded boring compared to Apple. You didn't have to have a real specific reason for choosing a name when you were a little tiny company of two people; you choose any name you want.”
“Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Teachers started recognizing me and praising me for being smart in science and that made me want to be even smarter in science!”
“אף פעם אל תסמוך על מחשב שאינך יכול לזרוק מהחלון.”
“חלק מהאנשים הנפלאים הם מנהיגים ואחרים הם ברי־מזל, בזמן הנכון במקום הנכון, אני שם את עצמי בסוג השני, אבל אף פעם לא אקרא לעצמי מעצב רגיל. ”
“הרבה מהאקינג זה לשחק עם אנשים אחרים, לגרום להם לעשות לדברים מוזרים.”
“איפה שאנשים חכמים עובדים, הדלתות לא נעולות.”
“סטיב ג'ובס לא משתמש במק, הוא גם לא ישתמש בעתיד, בגלל שזה גרוע לפי דעתו.”
“Creative things have to sell to get acknowledged as such.”
“I read Google News and use NetNewsWire to keep up with general and tech news.”
“My goal wasn't to make a ton of money. It was to build good computers.”