Quotes from Steve Wozniak

If you try to make such projects, unseen by others, as perfect as any human could, you'll develop skills that other professionals don't have.

Most inventors and engineers I've met are like me. They're shy and they live in their heads. The very best of them are artists. And artists work best alone.

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.

It would be nice to design a real briefcase - you open it up and it's your computer but it also stores your books.

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

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.

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!

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.

I just believe in whatever you're going to do, even if it's work, have a little bit of fun attitude about it. You can be happy.

I just was non-political and didn't see myself as a person who could push people around, make their decision, you know, and tell them how lousy their work was.

It's just not right that so many things don't work when they should. I don't think that will change for a long time.

Artists work best alone. Work alone.

You'd better have the technology knowledge. I really urge you not to think you can start a whole company and business with just ideas on paper, because you'll end up owning so few of those ideas.

My dream was actually just to have a computer some day. If I'd imagined that it meant starting a company to sell them, I probably would have avoided the whole thing.

I had a TV set and a typewriter and that made me think a computer should be laid out like a typewriter with a video screen.

Bill Gates did predict that computers for people made sense because he wrote a basic.

College just didn't even have computers for an under-curriculum when I started college.

Did you really invent the computer, or am I being pranked right now?

Back in high school I told my dad, "I'm going to have a computer someday." And he said that it cost as much as a house-the downpayment on a house. And I said, "Well, I'll live in an apartment."

Although I receive a small salary from Apple, I do virtually no real work at the company.

In the end, I hope there's a little note somewhere that says I designed a good computer.

Somebody who's designing something for himself has at least got a market of one that he's very close to.

I have always respected education, which is why I actually went back secretly and taught school for eight years.

Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window.