Top 90 Steve Wozniak Quotes (2025 Update)

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

— Steve Wozniak

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

— Steve Wozniak

3. “Artists work best alone. Work alone.”

— Steve Wozniak

4. “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.”

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5. “Imagination is something you do alone.”

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6. “Most inventors and engineers I’ve met are like me. They’re shy and they live in their heads. The very best of them are artists. And artists work best alone...”

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7. “Wherever smart people work, doors are unlocked.”

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8. “The easier it is to do something, the harder it is to change the way you do it.”

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9. “When we first started with Apple computers, it was my dream that everyone would learn to program, and that was how they’d use their computer.”

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10. “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 a part of a revolution.”

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11. “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.”

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12. “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.”

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13. “A lot of hacking is playing with other people, you know, getting them to do strange things.”

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14. “If you love what you do and are willing to do what it takes, it’s within your reach.”

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15. “Not everything in life can go perfectly according to plan. I mean I didn’t keep every girlfriend I ever had.”

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16. “I think that the anti-Microsoft sentiment is simply due to their having been so successful selling a lot of crap.”

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17. “I wanted to be a fifth grade teacher because my teacher was so important to me and was giving me the education that was going to take me through life and through this world.”

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18. “Creative things have to sell to get acknowledged as such.”

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19. “Atari is a very sad story.”

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20. “I was born to teach. I have always had this gift with children.”

— Steve Wozniak

21. “Try to think of new ways to solve the old problems. Very often we look at something we have and say, “I could make it better.′ That’s innovation.”

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22. “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.”

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23. “When you stop and think about it, a smartphone is basically a whistle you can carry.”

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24. “I just believe in whatever you’re going to do, even if it’s work, have a little bit of fun attitude about it. You can be happy.”

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25. “I wanted to be an elementary school teacher my whole life.”

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26. “Don’t worry that you can’t seem to come up with sure billion dollar winners at first. Just do projects for yourself for fun. You’ll get better and better.”

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27. “Geek it’s really more a characteristic where you don’t socialize. You don’t talk the normal languages.”

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28. “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.”

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29. “My primary phone is the iPhone. I love the beauty of it. But I wish it did all the things my Android does, I really do.”

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30. “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.”

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31. “Everything that has a computer in will fail. Everything in your life, from a watch to a car to a radio, to an iPhone, it will fail if it have a computer in it.”

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32. “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.”

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33. “In the end, I hope there’s a little note somewhere that says I designed a good computer.”

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34. “To give of yourself is much more important than giving a gift you can buy.”

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

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36. “I hate to say it, and Apple never likes it, but I love anything that’s hacker oriented. I don’t like passing it onto others, or getting things for free. I don’t like stealing music one bit, at all...”

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37. “Every dream I’ve ever had in life has come true ten times over.”

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38. “A lot of things seem to be worth almost no money. but if you do them very well, and they help people fill a need, there’s a great business you can build around that.”

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39. “After the Apple II was introduced, then came the Commodore and the Tandy TRS-80.”

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40. “When you’re providing a service to somebody, you’re the guy they always call when something’s wrong.”

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41. “The Homebrew Computer Club was the highlight of my life. I was too shy to ever talk in the club meeting, but the way that I could communicate sometimes was by doing good designs. I was very skilled at a certain type of circuit design.”

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42. “The biggest benefit in my life comes from my Segway, which I use everywhere I am. If I’m going to San Antonio, for example, I’ll load it in the car and just go everywhere with it.”

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43. “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.”

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44. “If my son wants to be a pimp when he grows up, that’s fine with me. I hope he’s a good one and enjoys it and doesn’t get caught. I’ll support him in this. But if he wants to be a network administrator, he’s out of the house and not part of my family.”

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45. “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.”

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46. “My dream was actually just to have a computer some day. If I’d imagined that it meant starting a company to sell them, I probably would have avoided the whole thing.”

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47. “I have always respected education, which is why I actually went back secretly and taught school for eight years.”

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48. “I absolutely do not need a salary or a job, that’s the last thing I need.”

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49. “With the cloud, you don’t own anything. You already signed it away.”

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50. “Steve Jobs doesn’t use a Mac, and won’t, because it’s too crappy in his opinion.”

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