Steve Wozniak Quotes (45 Quotes)

When I designed projects in college, he said, let's sell it.

Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window.

I thought Microsoft did a lot of things that were good and right building parts of the browser into the operating system. Then I thought it out and came up with reasons why it was a monopoly.

A lot of hacking is playing with other people, you know, getting them to do strange things.

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.

My goal wasn't to make a ton of money. It was to build good computers.

It disturbed me quite a bit when young children had to get on the evacuation buses and leave their pets behind, ... Pets are a part of your family, at least in my opinion. I have five dogs of my own and they're my family. I can't imagine having to leave them behind.

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.

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.

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.

I think everything I have done in my life, my reasons at the time were right no matter how things worked out.

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

The way I did it, every job was A+.

All of a sudden, we needed something like 250,000, so we had to go out and pursue the company in a whole different aspect, and we found somebody who was willing to put their money in.

Wherever smart people work, doors are unlocked.

The Mac's a symbol of a whole revolution, and most of us that participated in it from the beginning and believed in it bought into these new ideals of computers to really help people, and not something that you had to fight, memorize and learn, ... That whole revolution just continues in our hearts to this day.

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!

It would be nice to design a real briefcase - you open it up and it's your computer but it also stores your books.

Steve and I ran the business into 1977 with just a few hundred bucks.

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.

In some parts of life, like mathematics and science, yeah, I was a genius. I would top all the top scores you could ever measure it by.

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

Atari is a very sad story.

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.

You have to think offensively and defensively and see where your opponent is going to go. Your mind has to be totally aware of the whole situation. That doesn't come the first time you play.

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

Creative things have to sell to get acknowledged as such.

Even if you do something that others might consider wrong, you should at least be willing to talk about it and tell your parents what you're doing because you believe it's right.

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.

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.

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.

But it was kind of fun to have a company, and that was good enough reason to do it. And step by step, boy, it was right timing. Computers were exploding and we were in it exactly at the right time.

My whole life had been designing computers I could never build.

All the best people in life seem to like LINUX.

Macintosh users tend to be a very independent type, and they tend to be very loyal to their product. They've been threatened with Apple going out of business and being put out of their schools and out of their companies, and they've got to fight. There's so much passion for it.

You know what, Steve Jobs is real nice to me. He lets me be an employee and that's one of the biggest honors of my life.

After the Apple II was introduced, then came the Commodore and the Tandy TRS-80.

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.

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

Hard disks have disappointed me more than most technologies.

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.

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.

Every dream I've ever had in life has come true ten times over.

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