Steve Wozniak
Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window.
-Steve Wozniak
computers
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.
-Steve Wozniak
computers
My whole life had been designing computers I could never build.
-Steve Wozniak
computers
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.
-Steve Wozniak
computers
My goal wasn't to make a ton of money. It was to build good computers.
-Steve Wozniak
computers
It would be nice to design a real briefcase - you open it up and it's your computer but it also stores your books.
-Steve Wozniak
design
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.
-Steve Wozniak
design
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.
-Steve Wozniak
famous
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.
-Steve Wozniak
freedom
Wherever smart people work, doors are unlocked.
-Steve Wozniak
intelligence
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.
-Steve Wozniak
knowledge
My goal wasn't to make a ton of money. It was to build good computers.
-Steve Wozniak
money
Atari is a very sad story.
-Steve Wozniak
sad
Teachers started recognizing me and praising me for being smart in science and that made me want to be even smarter in science!
-Steve Wozniak
science
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.
-Steve Wozniak
science
Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window.
-Steve Wozniak
trust
Wherever smart people work, doors are unlocked.
-Steve Wozniak
work
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