A lot of hacking is playing with other people, you know, getting them to do strange things. Steve Wozniak More Quotes by Steve Wozniak More Quotes From 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 investmentcompanywanted 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 simplejobsideas 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 companyvisionjobs 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 applesdesignbelieve 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. Steve Wozniak politicaldecisionpeople 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. Steve Wozniak clubsdesignshy When you're about 20 years old, you kind of think out - I figured out that it was better - less good to be successful and better to have a laughing life, laugh more than you frown all through your life. Because on the day you die, which one would you have said had the happier life, the better life? And so I put a lot of humor in my life. Steve Wozniak successfulyearsthinking I was kind of amazed because I first found out about blue boxes in an article in Esquire magazine labeled fiction. That article was the most truthful article I've ever read in my life... That article was so truthful, and it told about a mistake in the phone company that let you dial phone calls anywhere in the world. What an amazing thing to discover. Steve Wozniak phonesmistakeblue I do not like to talk about the future. I don't like to be one of those people. It's so easy to have a very vague idea and say, oh, computers will be 3D-ish and then 10 years later I'll say I predicted it 10 years ahead. I don't think that's honest and I don't think that's valid and worth anything. Steve Wozniak yearsideasthinking 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. Steve Wozniak inspirationpeopleideas 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 colortryingpeople I don't think I was talking specifically about Steve Jobs. It was just a general philosophy about one person grows up and he's kind of managing companies and every day he's working making sure this is in place and that's in place. Steve Wozniak growing-upjobsphilosophy I have such a crowded life and crowded schedule. When people send me a link with a gadget, I'll look at it and buy it if it looks interesting, but I don't have time to check out everything I'd like to. Steve Wozniak peoplelooksinteresting 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. Steve Wozniak boardsjobsworld Look at the privacy side of it, though, mark Zuckerberg buys all the houses around Mark Zuckerberg for privacy and buys extra lots in Hawaii around his for privacy. But oh, our privacy has not been respected and watched over. Steve Wozniak latest-headlines I was the executive who always opposed that, i felt that you should distribute your divisions… and let the teams think more independently. Steve Wozniak top-news Not every Apple product makes a big enough difference to me to get instantly, although many do. Steve Wozniak appledifferencemeenough 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 wordsyousmartspeak 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 yourselfyoulifepeople 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 yourselfyoumoneyworld
