Steve Wozniak citations (18 citations)

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

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

“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.”

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"Letters-General Questions Answered" p. 96 http://www.woz.org/letters/general/96.html
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“I went drinking with Gray Powell and all I got was a lousy iPhone prototype.”

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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

“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.”

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

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5th HOPE conference (2004)

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

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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.”

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

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Source: iWoz (2006), p. 12

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

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Bloomberg Business interview (2014)

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

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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