Zitat des Tages von Steve Wozniak:
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.
Hard disks have disappointed me more than most technologies.
In the end, I hope there's a little note somewhere that says I designed a good computer.
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.
Everything we did we were setting the tone for the world.
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!
Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window.
The first Apple was just a culmination of my whole life.
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.
After the Apple II was introduced, then came the Commodore and the Tandy TRS-80.
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.
Atari is a very sad story.
The way I did it, every job was A+.
I read Google News and use NetNewsWire to keep up with general and tech news.
A lot of hacking is playing with other people, you know, getting them to do strange things.
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.
My goal wasn't to make a ton of money. It was to build good computers.
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.
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.
My whole life had been designing computers I could never build.
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.
Creative things have to sell to get acknowledged as such.
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 just believe that the way that young people's minds develop is fascinating. If you are doing something for a grade or salary or a reward, it doesn't have as much meaning as creating something for yourself and your own life.
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.
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.
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.
Wherever smart people work, doors are unlocked.
The more we thought, the more they all sounded boring compared to Apple. You didn't have to have a real specific reason for choosing a name when you were a little tiny company of two people; you choose any name you want.
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.
I think everything I have done in my life, my reasons at the time were right no matter how things worked out.
For some reason I get this key position of being one of two people that started the company that started the revolution.
What I was proud of was that I used very few parts to build a computer that could actually speak words on a screen and type words on a keyboard and run a programming language that could play games. And I did all this myself.
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.
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.
It would be nice to design a real briefcase - you open it up and it's your computer but it also stores your books.