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Stephen Gary "Steve" Wozniak , also nicknamed "The Woz", is an American inventor, electronics engineer, programmer, philanthropist, 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.

Wozniak single-handedly developed the 1976 Apple I, which was the computer that launched Apple. He primarily designed the 1977 Apple II, known as one of the first highly successful mass-produced microcomputers, while Jobs oversaw the development of its unusual case and Rod Holt developed the unique power supply.

✵ 11. August 1950
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Famous Steve Wozniak Quotes

“Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window”

Steve Wozniak

“Artists work best alone. Work alone.”

Steve Wozniak book iWoz

Source: iWoz

“Wherever smart people work, doors are unlocked.”

Steve Wozniak

5th HOPE conference (2004)

“I wanted my own computer my whole life.”

Steve Wozniak

Bloomberg Business interview (2014)

“Our first computers were born not out of greed or ego, but in the revolutionary spirit of helping common people rise above the most powerful institutions.”

Steve Wozniak

“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.”

Steve Wozniak

Steve Wozniak Quotes about people

“I also like to ride Segways. How much fun that is! Anybody think that's fun? I hope so… There's an awful lot of people in the world that sneer at Segways because other people are having fun. There must be something bad about it. But I always tell people, that hey, these Segways are so environmentally conscious. I carry four of them in the trunk of my Hummer.”

Steve Wozniak

5th HOPE conference (2004)

“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. All the best people in life seem to like LINUX.”

Steve Wozniak

"Letters-General Questions Answered" p. 1 http://www.woz.org/letters/general/01.html
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“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

"Letters-General Questions Answered" p. 96 http://www.woz.org/letters/general/96.html
Woz.org files

“A lot of hacking is playing with other people, you know, getting them to do strange things.”

Steve Wozniak

5th HOPE conference (2004)

“I never lie, even to this day. Not even a little. Unless you count playing pranks on people, which I don't. That's comedy. Entertainment doesn't count. A joke is different from a lie, even if the difference is kind of subtle.”

Steve Wozniak book iWoz

Source: iWoz (2006), p. 12

Steve Wozniak Quotes

“If you love what you do and are willing to do what it takes, it's within your reach. And it'll be worth every minute you spend alone at night, thinking and thinking about what it is you want to design or build. It'll be worth it, I promise.”

Steve Wozniak book iWoz

Source: iWoz (2006), p. 300

Love , Thinking , Night

“The transition to a GUI, and eventually to one close to a Macintosh, was a far greater step than refinements since. Some of these are just simple alternatives, which can't be over-valued due to increasing the complexity of having less consistency in how things are done. Others of these are more akin to rearranging the furniture. The great change was in becoming a modern GUI machine. In that sense, virtually every machine is a 'Macintosh' now.”

Steve Wozniak

Explaining his comment that now "Every PC is a Macintosh", "Letters-General Questions Answered" p. 105 http://www.woz.org/letters/general/105.html
Woz.org files

Guy , Sense , Change

“Soldering things together, putting the chips together, designing them, drawing them on drafting tables — it was so much a passion in my life. And to this day, I'll go stay at the bottom of the org chart being an engineer, because that's where I want to be.”

Steve Wozniak

Steve Wozniak Debunks One of Apple's Biggest Myths - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJif4i9NRdI
Bloomberg Business interview (2014)

Life , Passion , Drawing

“Creative things have to sell to get acknowledged as such. Steve Jobs didn't really set the direction of my Apple I and Apple II designs but he did the more important part of turning them into a product that would change the world. I don't deny that.”

Steve Wozniak

"Letters-General Questions Answered" p. 96 http://www.woz.org/letters/general/96.html
Woz.org files

World , Change , Parting

“I went drinking with Gray Powell and all I got was a lousy iPhone prototype.”

Steve Wozniak

On a T-shirt making fun of Powell's plight, after having lost a next-generation iPhone prototype, as reported in "Woz has fun with leaked iPhone T-shirt" at cnet news (23 April 2010) http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-20003345-37.html

Drink

“It had to be that artistically perfect, because it represents yourself when you do a great design.”

Steve Wozniak

Bloomberg Business interview (2014)

Perfection

“Steve Jobs doesn't use a Mac, and won't, because it's too crappy in his opinion.”

Steve Wozniak

Commenting on Steve Jobs's stewardship after his return to Apple, before the release of Mac OS X, MacTech Vol. 14 No. 5 (May 1998) http://www.mactech.com/articles/mactech/Vol.14/14.05/May98FactoryFloor/index.html

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