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
running thinking people
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,
night long creative
It's funny how when you're up so late at night for so long your mind can get into these creative places, the kind of creative places that come to you when you're halfway between asleep and awake.
skills perfect trying
If you try to make such projects, unseen by others, as perfect as any human could, you'll develop skills that other professionals don't have.
stories very-sad atari
Atari is a very sad story.
color people trying
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?
imagination
Imagination is something you do alone.
order littles way
You have to seek the simplest implementation of a problem solution in order to know when you've reached your limit in that regard. Then it's easy to make tradeoffs, to back off a little, for performance reasons. You can simplify and simplify and simplify yet still find other incredible ways to simplify further.
drinking iphone gray
I went drinking with Gray Powell and all I got was a lousy iPhone prototype.
genius mathematics economy
In some parts of life, like mathematics and science, yeah, I was a genius. I would top all the top scores you could ever measure it by.
apples economy
After the Apple II was introduced, then came the Commodore and the Tandy TRS-80.
next months calculators
I sold my most valuable possession, but I knew that because I worked at Hewlett Packard, I could buy the next model calculator the very next month for a lower price than I sold the older one for!
google news use
I read Google News and use NetNewsWire to keep up with general and tech news.
life thinking matter
I think everything I have done in my life, my reasons at the time were right no matter how things worked out.
technology disappointed hard
Hard disks have disappointed me more than most technologies.