Quotes by Steve Wozniak

“All of a sudden, weve lost a lot of control, he said. We cant turn off our internet; we cant turn off our smartphones; we cant turn off our computers. You used to ask a smart person a question. Now...”

“I am also atheist or agnostic (I don't even know the difference). I've never been to church and prefer to think for myself.”

“I really, really wanted to be successful in my life just based on me and my mind aloneI didnt ever want it to be an equation that amounted to a result coming from my brain plus something else.”

“All of a sudden, we've lost a lot of control. We can't turn off our internet; we can't turn off our smartphones; we can't turn off our computers. You used to ask a smart person a question. Now, who...”

“I acquired a central ability that was to help me through my entire career: patience. I'm serious. Patience is usually so underrated. I mean, for all these projects, from third grade all the way to ...”

“As soon as he said it was okay to do engineering, that really freed me up. My psychological block was really that I didn't want to start a company. Because I was just afraid. In business and politi...”

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

“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....”

“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.”

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

“Wherever smart people work, doors are unlocked.”

“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.”

“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.”

“All the best people in life seem to like LINUX.”

“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.”

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

“Atari is a very sad story.”

“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.”

“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.”