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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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.
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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?
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I learned not to worry so much about the outcome, but to concentrate on the step I was on and to try to do it as perfectly as I could when I was doing it.
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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 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 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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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.
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When the Internet first came, I thought it was just the beacon of freedom. People could communicate with anyone, anywhere, and nobody could stop it.