Your first projects aren’t the greatest things in the world, and they may have no money value, they may go nowhere, but that is how you learn – you put so much effort into making something right if it is for yourself. – Steve Wozniak
Another hero was Tom Swift, in the books. What he stood for, the freedom, the scientific knowledge and being and engineer gave him the ability to invent solutions to problems. He’s always been a hero to me. I buy old Tom Swift books now and read them to my own children. – Steve Wozniak
I just believe that the way that young people’s minds develop is fascinating. If you are doing something for a grade or salary or a reward, it doesn’t have as much meaning as creating something for yourself and your own life. – Steve Wozniak
I believe you should have a world where you’ve got to license something at a fair price. – Steve Wozniak
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. – Steve Wozniak
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. – Steve Wozniak
It would be nice to design a real briefcase – you open it up and it’s your computer but it also stores your books. – Steve Wozniak
You can make something big when young that will carry you through life. Look at all the big startups like Microsoft, Apple, Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc. They were all started by very young people who stumbled on something of unseen value. You’ll know it when you hit a home run. – Steve Wozniak
But I know newspapers. They have the first amendment and they can tell any lie knowing it’s a lie and they’re protected if the person’s famous or it’s a company. – Steve Wozniak
Even if you do something that others might consider wrong, you should at least be willing to talk about it and tell your parents what you’re doing because you believe it’s right. – Steve Wozniak
Steve Jobs had very strong feelings about what makes a company great, what makes products great. He more or less chose Tim Cook to be in that role, in that position. – Steve Wozniak
I think everything I have done in my life, my reasons at the time were right no matter how things worked out. – Steve Wozniak
When I have spare time, I catch up on things I’ve had to postpone due to lack of time. – Steve Wozniak
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. – Steve Wozniak
Teachers started recognizing me and praising me for being smart in science and that made me want to be even smarter in science! – Steve Wozniak
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. – Steve Wozniak
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. – Steve Wozniak
Some great people are leaders and others are more lucky, in the right place at the right time. I’d put myself in the latter category. But I’d never call myself a normal designer of anything. – Steve Wozniak
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. – Steve Wozniak
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! – Steve Wozniak
For some reason I get this key position of being one of two people that started the company that started the revolution. – Steve Wozniak
I’m surprised at the extent of the bigotry. But it really plays out when companies or schools take a side and prohibit the other platform at all. We Mac users should be good even when the other side is bad. We should do what we can to accept the other platforms. – Steve Wozniak
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. – Steve Wozniak
A lot of hacking is playing with other people, you know, getting them to do strange things. – Steve Wozniak
