“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
“I had no money. I had no savings account.So I would bring down my color TV set, a Sears TV with a cable snaked into it - they had no video-in back in those days - and hooked it up to the circuit of very few chips and then a little keyboard you could type on. And I was trying to impress people with how did he do it with fewer chips than anyone could ever imagine?” PeopleTryingLittlesImagineColorTvsTypeAccountsVideoSavingFewerImpressChipsSavingsCablesNo MoneyHookedKeyboardsCircuitsSearsSavings Accounts 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
“I just was non-political and didn't see myself as a person who could push people around, make their decision, you know, and tell them how lousy their work was.” PeoplePersonsPoliticalDecisionNon Political Author:Steve Wozniak
“I do not like to talk about the future. I don't like to be one of those people. It's so easy to have a very vague idea and say, oh, computers will be 3D-ish and then 10 years later I'll say I predicted it 10 years ahead. I don't think that's honest and I don't think that's valid and worth anything.” PeopleThinkingYearsIdeasEasyHonestComputerVagueVague Ideas Author:Steve Wozniak
“Predictions can sound really good if you're good with words and can express them eloquently and give people ideas and inspiration in their head. But I'm not really good at that, so I don't want to.” PeopleIfsWantGivingIdeasInspirationSoundPredictionsIdeas And Inspiration Author:Steve Wozniak
“Bill Gates did predict that computers for people made sense because he wrote a basic.” PeopleMadeComputerBillsGates Author:Steve Wozniak
“Pretty much I want to be Steve Wozniak, who I decided I was at a young age and not change. I want to go back to school and get my college degree like I would have without Apple. I want to teach young kids like I would have without Apple. And part of it is I'm accessible. I'm open. And so many people e-mail me and get me. And as much as I can I try to answer people, listen to them, be polite and say yes.” PeopleWantTryingI CanKidsAgeSchoolYoungAnswersTeachCollegeDegreesDecidedApplesMailPoliteYoung AgeCollege Degree Author:Steve Wozniak
“I want to get back to education. When I was in college I paid attention to child psychology portions of our psychology classes. I watch other people work with babies. And I saw the baby as developing like a computer and it intrigued me in my life. I wanted to do that.” PeopleWantChildrenWantedAttentionClassWatchesPsychologySawsCollegeBabyComputerPaidDevelopingGet BackPortionsIntriguedChild Psychology 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
“I have such a crowded life and crowded schedule. When people send me a link with a gadget, I'll look at it and buy it if it looks interesting, but I don't have time to check out everything I'd like to.” PeopleIfsLooksInterestingChecksLinksSchedulesCrowdedGadgets Author:Steve Wozniak
“I never got into Linux. I swear to God, it's only lack of time. I'm past the years of my life where I can really dig into something like running a Linux system. I'm very sympathetic to the whole idea; Linux people always think the way I want to think.” PeopleThinkingWayWantYearsI CanIdeasWholeRunningPastSwearSympatheticLinuxSwear To GodLack Of Time Author:Steve Wozniak
“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.” PeopleIfsNeedsWellsHelpingSeemsNo MoneyGreat Business Author:Steve Wozniak
“And Communist Russia was so bad because they followed their people, they snooped on them, they arrested them, they put them in secret prisons, they disappeared them.” PeopleSecretPrisonRussiaCommunistArrested Author:Steve Wozniak
“Wherever smart people work, doors are unlocked.” PeopleWorkEconomyDoorsSmartLuckSmart PeopleHappy New Year InspirationalSmart Person Author:Steve Wozniak
“A lot of hacking is playing with other people, you know, getting them to do strange things.” PeopleKnowsEconomyStrangeStrange ThingsAdvocatingHackingComputer Hacking Author:Steve Wozniak
“All the best people in life seem to like LINUX.” PeopleLifeSeemsAll The BestLinux 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
“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.” PeopleLeaderGreatnessLuckyNormalManagementLuckDesignerLatterCategoriesRight TimeRight PlaceGreat People Author:Steve Wozniak
“You can make something big when young that will carry you through life. Look at all the big startups like Microsoft, Apple, Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc. They were all started by very young people who stumbled on something of unseen value. You'll know it when you hit a home run.” PeopleKnowsLooksHomeBigsRunningYoungValuesApplesEtcGoogleUnseenMicrosoftHome RunHitting Home Runs Author:Steve Wozniak
“Our first computers were born not out of greed or ego, but in the revolutionary spirit of helping common people rise above the most powerful institutions.” PeopleFirstsHelpingSpiritBornPowerfulCommonEgoComputerInstitutionsGreedRevolutionaryMost PowerfulRise Above Author:Steve Wozniak
“The people I recommend the iPhone 4S for are the ones who are already in the Mac world, because it's so compatible, and people who are just scared of computers altogether and don't want to use them. The iPhone is the least frightening thing. For that kind of person who is scared of complexity, well, here's a phone that is simple to use and does what you need it to do.” PeopleWorldWantNeedsWellsKindPersonsDoeUseSimpleComputerPhonesScaredComplexityFrighteningIphoneMacsCompatibleIphone 4s Author:Steve Wozniak
“It's a lot easier to think of an app and write it than it is to convince people to want it.” PeopleThinkingWantWritingEasierConvinceApps Author:Steve Wozniak
“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.” PeopleGivingStuffEconomyRevolutionComputerClubsBeing Free Author:Steve Wozniak
