Quotes from Steve Wozniak

You know what, Steve Jobs is real nice to me. He lets me be an employee and that's one of the biggest honors of my life.

Every dream I've ever had in life has come true ten times over.

The biggest benefit in my life comes from my Segway, which I use everywhere I am. If I'm going to San Antonio, for example, I'll load it in the car and just go everywhere with it.

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.

Don't worry that you can't seem to come up with sure billion dollar winners at first. Just do projects for yourself for fun. You'll get better and better.

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.

Teachers started recognizing me and praising me for being smart in science and that made me want to be even smarter in science!

Not everything in life can go perfectly according to plan. I mean I didn't keep every girlfriend I ever had.

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

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.

Hard disks have disappointed me more than most technologies.

Everything that has a computer in will fail. Everything in your life, from a watch to a car to a radio, to an iPhone, it will fail if it have a computer in it.

I wanted to be an elementary school teacher my whole life.

I think everything I have done in my life, my reasons at the time were right no matter how things worked out.

I wanted to be a fifth grade teacher because my teacher was so important to me and was giving me the education that was going to take me through life and through this world.

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.

I want to be able to speak with errors in my wording, errors in my grammar. When you type things into Google search, it corrects your words. With speech, I want it to be general enough, smart enough, to know 'No, he couldn't have meant these words that I think he said. He must have really meant something similar.'

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.

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.

I thought Microsoft did a lot of things that were good and right building parts of the browser into the operating system. Then I thought it out and came up with reasons why it was a monopoly.

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.

If you love what you do and are willing to do what it takes, it's within your reach.

My primary phone is the iPhone. I love the beauty of it. But I wish it did all the things my Android does, I really do.

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.