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

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When you're providing a service to somebody, you're the guy they... by Steve Wozniak

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

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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.

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

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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.

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The first Apple was just a culmination of my whole life. by Steve Wozniak

The first Apple was just a culmination of my whole life.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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I'd learned enough about circuitry in high school electronics to know how to drive a TV and get it to draw - shapes of characters and things.

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Like people including Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk have predicted, I agree that the future is scary and very bad for people. If we build these devices to take care of everything for us, eventually they'll think faster than us and they'll get rid of the slow humans to run companies more efficiently.

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

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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.

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Not everything in life can go perfectly according to plan. I mean I didn't keep every girlfriend I ever had.

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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

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

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

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

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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

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If you try to make such projects, unseen by others, as perfect as any human could, you'll develop skills that other professionals don't have.

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Back in high school I told my dad, "I'm going to have a computer... by Steve Wozniak

Back in high school I told my dad, "I'm going to have a computer someday."

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Imagination is something you do alone. by Steve Wozniak

Imagination is something you do alone.

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