Steve Wozniak is an American inventor, electronics engineer, programmer, philanthropist, and technology entrepreneur who co-founded Apple Inc. He is known as a pioneer of the personal computer revolution of the 1970’s and 1980’s, along with Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. Wozniak single-handedly developed the 1976 Apple I, which was the computer that launched Apple. May his quotes inspire you to work hard to make your dreams a reality.
1. “Wherever smart people work, doors are unlocked.” Steve Wozniak
2. “Artists work best alone. Work alone.” Steve Wozniak
3. “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
4. “It’s a lot easier to think of an app and wite it, than it is to convince people to want it, publicity is crucially important. Marketing is the most important thing.” Steve Wozniak
5. “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.” Steve Wozniak
6. “All the best things that I did come from not having money and not having done it before.” Steve Wozniak
7. “Cloud computing is growing, especially as we are all used to having our mobile devices link us to data wherever we are.” Steve Wozniak
8. “I worked with such concentration and focus.” Steve Wozniak
9. “My goal wasn’t to make a ton of money. It was to build good computers.” Steve Wozniak
10. “I wish to God that Apple and Google were partners in the future.” Steve Wozniak
11. “I have always respected education, which is why I actually went back secretly and taught school for eight years.” Steve Wozniak
12. “A lot of hacking is playing with other people, you know, getting them to do strange things.” Steve Wozniak
13. “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.” Steve Wozniak
14. “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.” Steve Wozniak
15. “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.” Steve Wozniak
16. “I just tried to find every trick I could in life to design things real tiny.” Steve Wozniak
17. “All the best people in life seem to like Linux” Steve Wozniak
18. “I just felt that an intelligent person like myself could figure out good behavior.” Steve Wozniak
19. “If we build these devices to take care of everything for us, eventually they’ll think faster than us and they’ll get rid of the slow humans to run companies more efficiently.” Steve Wozniak
20. “The human is more important than the technology. Make things more human.” Steve Wozniak
21. “You need the kind of objectivity that makes you forget everything you’ve heard, clear the table, and do a factual study like a scientist would.” Steve Wozniak
22. “Imagination is something you do alone.” Steve Wozniak
23. “It’s funny how when you’re up so late at night for so long your mind can get into these creative places, the kind of creative places that come to you when you’re halfway between asleep and awake.” Steve Wozniak
24. “Creative things have to sell to get acknowledged.” Steve Wozniak
25. “What Steve Jobs and I did, and at the same time Bill Gates and Paul Allen did – we had no savings accounts, no friends that could loan us money, but we had ideas, and I wanted all my life to be part of a revolution.” Steve Wozniak
26. “I’m going to give some advice that might be hard to take; work alone, not on a committee, not on a team.” Steve Wozniak
27. “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
28. “Great culture, care for clients, kind nature, fun team.” Steve Wozniak
29. “I wanted to be an elementary school teacher my whole life.” Steve Wozniak
30. “Two attributes that have made me successful are the drive to think outside of the box and understanding the user.” Steve Wozniak
31. “I just believe that the way 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.” Steve Wozniak
32. “No matter how fast the computer, you still need a human to solve a problem.” Steve Wozniak
33. “It’ll be worth it, I promise. Steve Wozniak
34. “Every dream I’ve ever had in life has come true ten times over.” Steve Wozniak
35. “If you love what you do and are willing to do what it takes, it’s within your reach.” Steve Wozniak
