“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.” PeopleWantLittlesTwoRealReasonNamesCompanyEconomyBoringTinyApplesYou Choose Author:Steve Wozniak
“He [Steve Jobs] had more of the future vision: We can bring this to everyone; we can start a company; we can sell it.” JobsCompanyVisionSells Author:Steve Wozniak
“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?” PeopleKnowsIdeasJobsSimpleCompanyComputerPassingPassingsNo IdeaCodeInexpensivePassing Out Author:Steve Wozniak
“When you're designing and inventing the way I did, every minute of your life is put - every neuron in your brain into trying to think about the little code and how you can maybe have one less line of code and a little bit more straightforward from the beginning to the answer. And you don't have time to think about companies and products and how would I build this. So Steve Jobs and I were a very necessary pair.” ThinkingWayTryingLittlesJobsLife IsBitsLinesAnswersBrainCompanyMinutesDesignProductsLittle BitCodePairsStraightforwardInventingTime To ThinkNeurons Author: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.” WantedCompanyInvestment Author:Steve Wozniak
“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.” WorldFirstsKindFoundMistakeFictionCompanyBluePhonesBoxesMagazinesArticlesTruthfulAmazedAmazing ThingsPhone Calls Author:Steve Wozniak
“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.” ThinkingKindPersonsPhilosophyJobsGrowsCompanyTalkingGrowing Up Author:Steve Wozniak
“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.” PeopleIfsThinkingHumansCareRunningCompanyAgreeIncludingScaryTake CareFasterDevicesMusk Author:Steve Wozniak
“You'd better have the technology knowledge. I really urge you not to think you can start a whole company and business with just ideas on paper, because you'll end up owning so few of those ideas.” ThinkingIdeasEndsWholeCompanyTechnologyPaperUrges Author:Steve Wozniak
“You should stay closely connected to the technology when you start your company.” ShouldCompanyTechnologyConnected Author:Steve Wozniak
“For some reason I get this key position of being one of two people that started the company that started the revolution.” PeopleTwoReasonCompanyEconomyPositionRevolutionKeys Author:Steve Wozniak
“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.” ShouldPlaySchoolSidesCompanyAcceptingEconomyBe GoodRacistBigotryUsersPlatformsMacs Author:Steve Wozniak
“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.” IfsKnowsFirstsPersonsLyingPoliticsCompanyKnowingFameNewspapersAmendmentsProtectedFirst Amendment Author:Steve Wozniak
“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.” FeelingsJobsStrongCompanyRolesPositionProductsCooksVery StrongStrong Feeling Author: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)” WantShouldLeftCompanyTalkingForeverCommitmentMy FamilyDuesLoyaltyTinyDataApplesEmployeeThis DayEngineersRetiredSalaryResidualApple Inc Author:Steve Wozniak
“My dream was actually just to have a computer some day. If I'd imagined that it meant starting a company to sell them, I probably would have avoided the whole thing.” IfsWholeDreamCompanyComputerSellsStartingAvoided Author:Steve Wozniak
