Did you really invent the computer, or am I being pranked right now? Steve Wozniak More Quotes by Steve Wozniak More Quotes From 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 loyalty talking commitment I have always respected education, which is why I actually went back secretly and taught school for eight years. Steve Wozniak eight years school Artists work best alone. Work alone. Steve Wozniak artist I think everything I have done in my life, my reasons at the time were right no matter how things worked out. Steve Wozniak done life thinking When you stop and think about it, a smartphone is basically a whistle you can carry. Steve Wozniak smartphones thinking 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 prius cruise certain 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. Steve Wozniak strong feelings jobs The way I did it, every job was A+. Steve Wozniak jobs way 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 politics knowing lying 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 games play running 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 important teacher giving 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 iphone car watches I had much more money than you ever need in your life to live on. So I was giving computer labs to school districts. I was - but then I decided you should really give yourself. Steve Wozniak giving school needs I never sensed really bad blood between Microsoft and Apple. A lot of Macintosh users feel badly about PCs and do have some bad feelings. I call them Macintosh bigots a little. They say, oh, no, only the Macintosh is the good one, and I don't like to be that way. Steve Wozniak apples feelings blood I think Apple's revenge is just the fact that Windows, you know, PCs all became Macintoshes in a way. Steve Wozniak apples revenge thinking 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 apples likes hate 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 helping people needs You should stay closely connected to the technology when you start your company. Steve Wozniak company technology should I wanted to be an elementary school teacher my whole life. Steve Wozniak whole-life teacher school 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 benefits fans use
