Steve Wozniak

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

“In the end, I hope there's a little note somewhere that says I designed a good computer.”

“Another hero was Tom Swift, in the books. What he stood for, the freedom, the scientific knowledge and being and engineer gave him the ability to invent solutions to problems. He's always been a hero to me. I buy old Tom Swift books now and read them to my own children.”

“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.”

“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!”

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

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

“Wherever smart people work, doors are unlocked.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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 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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Not every Apple product makes a big enough difference to me to get instantly, although many do.”

“All the best people in life seem to like LINUX.”