Quotes from Steve Wozniak

Atari is a very sad story.

Creative things have to sell to get acknowledged as such.

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.

A lot of things seem to be worth almost no money. but if you do them very well, and they help people fill a need, there's a great business you can build around that.

Neither one of us could be sure we'd get our money back on this investment, but we just wanted to have company of our own for once because we were best friends.

I had much more money than you ever need in your life to live on. So I was giving computer labs to school districts. I was - but then I decided you should really give yourself.

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.

I wish to God that Apple and Google were partners in the future.

My goal wasn't to make a ton of money. It was to build good computers.

I think that the anti-Microsoft sentiment is simply due to their having been so successful selling a lot of crap.

Imagination is something you do alone.

The best things that capture your imagination are ones you hadn't thought of before and that aren't talked about in the news all the time.

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.

Being an electronic genius was a reputation I had, maybe being even into math and science almost exclusively and not wanting to be in the other normal parts of the world.

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.

All the best people in life seem to like LINUX.

I believe you should have a world where you've got to license something at a fair price.

Not every Apple product makes a big enough difference to me to get instantly, although many do.

I read Google News and use NetNewsWire to keep up with general and tech news.

I went - I had designed - in high school designed hundreds and hundreds of computers over and over and over, so I developed these skills without ever thinking I'd do it in life as job.

The first Apple was just a culmination of my whole life.

I worked with such concentration and focus and I had hundreds of obscure engineering or programming things in my head. I was just real exceptional in that way.

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.