“When you're about 20 years old, you kind of think out - I figured out that it was better - less good to be successful and better to have a laughing life, laugh more than you frown all through your life. Because on the day you die, which one would you have said had the happier life, the better life? And so I put a lot of humor in my life.” ThinkingYearsKindSaidDiesLaughingSuccessfulBeing SuccessfulBetter LifeOld YouHappier Life 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
“I went - I had designed - in high school designed hundreds and hundreds of computers over and over and over, so I developed these skills without ever thinking I'd do it in life as job.” ThinkingSchoolJobsSkillsComputerHigh School 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
“I think Apple's revenge is just the fact that Windows, you know, PCs all became Macintoshes in a way.” ThinkingKnowsWayFactsWindowRevengeApplesMacintosh 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
“Will we be the gods? Will we be the family pets? Or will we be ants that get stepped on? I don't know about that ... But when I got that thinking in my head about if I'm going to be treated in the future as a pet to these smart machines ... well I'm going to treat my own pet dog really nice.” IfsThinkingKnowsWellsMy OwnNiceDogSmartMachinesTreatsGods WillTreatedPetAntsReally NicePet DogFamily Pets 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
“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
“I think that the anti-Microsoft sentiment is simply due to their having been so successful selling a lot of crap.” ThinkingHumorFunnySuccessfulDuesSellingSentimentsCrapMicrosoft Author:Steve Wozniak
“When you stop and think about it, a smartphone is basically a whistle you can carry.” ThinkingSmartphones Author:Steve Wozniak
“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.” ThinkingShouldMadeGamesEconomyTvsComputerScreensVideoTypewriters Author:Steve Wozniak
“I think everything I have done in my life, my reasons at the time were right no matter how things worked out.” ThinkingLifeMatterReasonDone Author:Steve Wozniak
“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.” ThinkingShouldLongChangeEconomyLong TimeShould IThings Change 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
“I am also atheist or agnostic (I don't even know the difference). I've never been to church and prefer to think for myself.” ThinkingKnowsDifferencesChurchAtheistAgnostic 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
