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
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My goal wasn't to make a ton of money. It was to build good computers. I only started the company when I realized I could be an engineer forever.
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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.
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You know what, Steve Jobs is real nice to me. He lets me be an employee and that's one of the biggest honors of my life.
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I worked with such concentration and focus and I had hundreds of obscure engineering or programming things in my head. I was just real exceptional in that way
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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
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It would be nice to design a real briefcase - you open it up and it's your computer but it also stores your books.
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It disturbed me quite a bit when young children had to get on the evacuation buses and leave their pets behind, ... Pets are a part of your family, at least in my opinion. I have five dogs of my own and they're my family. I can't imagine having to leave them behind.
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There are good things I see on Samsung phones that I wish were in my iPhone. I wish Apple would use them and could use them, and I don't know if Samsung would stop us.
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But it was kind of fun to have a company, and that was good enough reason to do it. And step by step, boy, it was right timing. Computers were exploding and we were in it exactly at the right time.
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I have a calendar life that is complicated, so I use BusyCal and Google Calendar. I keep two different browsers open to avoid some confusion.
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I don't know why because I'm nice to him, so there must have been something he didn't like.
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You have to think offensively and defensively and see where your opponent is going to go. Your mind has to be totally aware of the whole situation. That doesn't come the first time you play.
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My first transistor radio was the heart of my gadget love today. It fit in my hand and brought me a world of music 24 / 7.
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Although I receive a small salary from Apple, I do virtually no real work at the company.