Quotes by Steve Wozniak

All of a sudden, we’ve lost a lot of control,’ he said. ‘We can’t turn off our internet; we can’t turn off our smartphones; we can’t turn off our computers. You used to ask a smart person a question. Now, who do you ask? It starts with g-o, and it’s not God…

I am also atheist or agnostic (I dont even know the difference). Ive never been to church and prefer to think for myself.

All of a sudden, weve lost a lot of control. We cant turn off our internet; we cant turn off our smartphones; we cant turn off our computers. You used to ask a smart person a question. Now, who do you ask? It starts with g-o, and its no

I acquired a central ability that was to help me through my entire career: patience. Im serious. Patience is usually so underrated. I mean, for all these projects, from third grade all the way to eighth grade, I just learned things gradually, figuring out how to put electronic devices together without so much as cracking a book ... I learned to not 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.

I really, really wanted to be successful in my life just based on me and my mind alone…I didn’t ever want it to be an equation that amounted to a result coming from my brain plus something else.

As soon as he said it was okay to do engineering, that really freed me up. My psychological block was really that I didnt want to start a company. Because I was just afraid. In business and politics, I wasnt going to be a real strong participant. I wasnt going to tell other people how to do things. I wasnt going to run things ever in my life. I was a non-political person and I was a very non-forceful person. It dated back to a lot of things that happened during the Vietnam War. But I just couldnt run a company.

Never trust a computer you cant throw out a window

In the end, I hope theres a little note somewhere that says I designed a good computer.

Never trust a computer you cant throw out a window.

What I was proud of was that I used very few parts to build a computer that could actually speak words on a screen and type words on a keyboard and run a programming language that could play games. And I did all this myself.

My goal wasnt to make a ton of money. It was to build good computers.

My goal wasnt 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.

My whole life had been designing computers I could never build.

At our computer club, we talked about it being a revolution. Computers were going to belong to everyone, and give us power, and free us from the people who owned computers and all that stuff.

Wherever smart people work, doors are unlocked.

But I know newspapers. They have the first amendment and they can tell any lie knowing its a lie and theyre protected if the persons famous or its a company.

The best things that capture your imagination are ones you hadnt thought of before and that arent talked about in the news all the time.

All the best people in life seem to like LINUX.

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.

It would be nice to design a real briefcase - you open it up and its your computer but it also stores your books.