Steve Wozniak Quotes
29 quotes • Entrepreneur • Age 75
"If you love what you do and are willing to do what it takes, it's within your reach. And it'll be worth every minute you spend alone at night, thinking and thinking about what it is you want to design or build. It'll be worth it, I promise."
"Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window"
"Artists work best alone. Work alone."
"All of a sudden, we’ve lost a lot of control,’ he said. ‘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 do you ask? It starts with g-o, and it’s not God…"
"I learned not to worry so much about the outcome, but to concentrate on the step I was on and to try to do it as perfectly as I could when I was doing it."
"Our first computers were born not out of greed or ego, but in the revolutionary spirit of helping common people rise above the most powerful institutions."
"I hope you're as lucky as I am. The world needs inventors--great ones. You can be one. If you love what you do and are willing to do what it really takes, it's within your reach. And it'll be worth every minute you spend alone at night, thinking and thinking about what it is you want to design or build. It'll be worth it, I promise."
"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 do you ask? It starts with g-o, and it's not God.[CNN interview (December 8, 2010)]"
"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."
"when you don't have the hardware resources, you have to take advantage of what you have inside the chip"
"this early learning of how to do things one tiny little step at a time. I learned to not worry so much about the outcome, but to concentrate on the step I was on and to try to do it as perfectly as I could when I was doing it."
"And thanks to all those science projects, I acquired a central ability that was to help me through my entire career: patience."