Steve Wozniak
Steve Wozniak
StephenGary "Steve" Wozniak:18, nicknamed "Woz", and sometimes The Wonderful Wizard of Woz, is an American inventor, electronics engineer, programmer, and technology entrepreneur who co-founded Apple Inc. He is known as a pioneer of the personal computer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s, along with Apple co-founder Steve Jobs...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth11 August 1950
CountryUnited States of America
objectivity forget-everything marketing
You need the kind of objectivity that makes you forget everything you've heard, clear the table, and do a factual study like a scientist would.
microsoft reason-why building
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
interesting people looks
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.
writing thinking people
It's a lot easier to think of an app and write it than it is to convince people to want it,
teacher smart science
Teachers started recognizing me and praising me for being smart in science and that made me want to be even smarter in science!
use benefits fans
I'm also a fan with sticking with the most standard software that millions of other users also use, because you get the benefit of all those other users' problems and solutions.
technology iphone rockets
Rockets are bad technology. iPhones are good technology
running past thinking
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.
design
Somebody who's designing something for himself has at least got a market of one that he's very close to.
hate apples likes
I hate to say it, and Apple never likes it, but I love anything that's hacker oriented. I don't like passing it onto others, or getting things for free. I don't like stealing music one bit, at all ...
funny humor successful
I think that the anti-Microsoft sentiment is simply due to their having been so successful selling a lot of crap.
loyalty commitment talking
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)
apples phones androids
There's nothing that would keep Apple out of the Android market as a secondary phone market,
dream apples firsts
When we first started with Apple computers, it was my dream that everyone would learn to program, and that was how they'd use their computer.