“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.” WaySometimesCertainDesignTypeComputerMeetingsClubsCommunicateShyDoing GoodCircuitsHighlightsGood Design Author:Steve Wozniak
“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.” KnowsWorldWantBelieveHumansHuman BeingsDesignStartingCreditApples 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
“It's can you, Steve Wozniak, design the same computer - maybe it's a Varian 620i - can you design it on paper with fewer chips than last month? Can you design it with 79 chips instead of 80 chips? I had played this game so long that I had all these little tricks in my head that I can't even explain... Nothing was wasted; absolutely zero waste. I told this story recently to the Resource Recovery Association, recycling, and they loved to hear I didn't believe in waste.” BelieveLittlesLongI CanStoriesLastsGamesDesignMonthsWastePaperComputerResourcesTricksRecoveryZeroAssociationFewerChipsRecycling Author:Steve Wozniak
“Somebody who's designing something for himself has at least got a market of one that he's very close to.” Design Author:Steve Wozniak
“It would be nice to design a real briefcase - you open it up and it's your computer but it also stores your books.” BookRealWould BeNiceDesignComputerStoresBeing NiceBriefcases Author:Steve Wozniak
“My whole life had been designing computers I could never build.” LifeWholeEconomyDesignComputerWhole Life Author:Steve Wozniak
“I hope you're as lucky as I am. The world needs inventors--great ones. You can be one. If you love what you do and are willing to do what it really takes, it's within your reach. And it'll be worth every minute you spend alone at night, thinking and thinking about what it is you want to design or build. It'll be worth it, I promise.” IfsThinkingWorldWantNeedsMotivationalNightMinutesDesignWillingPromiseLuckyWorth ItInventorI PromiseGreat OnesNight Thinking Author:Steve Wozniak
“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.” WorldImportantJobsChangeEconomyDesignProductsDenyApplesChanging The World Author:Steve Wozniak
“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” IfsLifeTryingRealEconomyDesignComputerTinyTricksChips Author:Steve Wozniak
