Top 90 Steve Wozniak Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Young children were always so important to me. Adults should treat children with more respect. We should put more monies in our schools. I grew up on that side of the coin.”

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52. “I had a TV set and a typewriter and that made me think a computer should be laid out like a typewriter with a video screen.”

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

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54. “Everything we did we were setting the tone for the world.”

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55. “I wanted to be funny. And I’m always acknowledged for my pranks and jokes nowadays.”

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56. “And Communist Russia was so bad because they followed their people, they snooped on them, they arrested them, they put them in secret prisons, they disappeared them.”

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57. “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.”

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58. “I thought Microsoft did a lot of things that were good and right building parts of the browser into the operating system. Then I thought it out and came up with reasons why it was a monopoly.”

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59. “Rockets are bad technology. iPhones are good technology.”

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60. “Bill Gates did predict that computers for people made sense because he wrote a basic.”

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61. “The more we thought, the more they all sounded boring compared to Apple. You didn’t have to have a real specific reason for choosing a name when you were a little tiny company of two people; you choose any name you want.”

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62. “Some great people are leaders and others are more lucky, in the right place at the right time. I’d put myself in the latter category. But I’d never call myself a normal designer of anything.”

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63. “I worked with such concentration and focus and I had hundreds of obscure engineering or programming things in my head. I was just real exceptional in that way.”

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64. “I’d learned enough about circuitry in high school electronics to know how to drive a TV and get it to draw – shapes of characters and things.”

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65. “Predictions can sound really good if you’re good with words and can express them eloquently and give people ideas and inspiration in their head. But I’m not really good at that, so I don’t want to.”

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66. “My whole life had been designing computers I could never build.”

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67. “I think Apple’s revenge is just the fact that Windows, you know, PCs all became Macintoshes in a way.”

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68. “It’s just not right that so many things don’t work when they should. I don’t think that will change for a long time.”

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69. “You know what, Steve Jobs is real nice to me. He lets me be an employee and that’s one of the biggest honors of my life.”

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70. “Somebody who’s designing something for himself has at least got a market of one that he’s very close to.”

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71. “For some reason I get this key position of being one of two people that started the company that started the revolution.”

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72. “You’d better have the technology knowledge. I really urge you not to think you can start a whole company and business with just ideas on paper, because you’ll end up owning so few of those ideas.”

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73. “Neither one of us could be sure we’d get our money back on this investment, but we just wanted to have company of our own for once because we were best friends.”

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74. “Teachers started recognizing me and praising me for being smart in science and that made me want to be even smarter in science!”

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75. “I sold my most valuable possession, but I knew that because I worked at Hewlett Packard, I could buy the next model calculator the very next month for a lower price than I sold the older one for!”

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76. “Did you really invent the computer, or am I being pranked right now?”

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77. “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.”

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78. “I had much more money than you ever need in your life to live on. So I was giving computer labs to school districts. I was – but then I decided you should really give yourself.”

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79. “College just didn’t even have computers for an under-curriculum when I started college.”

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80. “I have such a crowded life and crowded schedule. When people send me a link with a gadget, I’ll look at it and buy it if it looks interesting, but I don’t have time to check out everything I’d like to.”

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81. “The first Apple was just a culmination of my whole life.”

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82. “Hard disks have disappointed me more than most technologies.”

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83. “You should stay closely connected to the technology when you start your company.”

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84. “Being an electronic genius was a reputation I had, maybe being even into math and science almost exclusively and not wanting to be in the other normal parts of the world.”

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85. “Steve Jobs had very strong feelings about what makes a company great, what makes products great. He more or less chose Tim Cook to be in that role, in that position.”

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86. “I don’t think I was talking specifically about Steve Jobs. It was just a general philosophy about one person grows up and he’s kind of managing companies and every day he’s working making sure this is in place and that’s in place.”

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87. “I had designed -in high school designed hundreds and hundreds of computers over and over and over, so I developed these skills without ever thinking I’d do it in life as job.”

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88. “I really believe I know why my designs were better than any other human being, but I don’t want to take credit for starting Apple, for turning the world around or anything like that.”

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89. “We truly could have used the later Jobs in earlier years at Apple, is what I feel.”

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90. “I went drinking with Gray Powell and all I got was a lousy iPhone prototype.”

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91. “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.”

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92. “I read Google News and use NetNewsWire to keep up with general and tech news.”

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93. “I think everything I have done in my life, my reasons at the time were right no matter how things worked out.”

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94. “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.”

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95. “And thanks to all those science projects, I acquired a central ability that was to help me through my entire career: patience.”

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96. “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 eighth grade, I just learned things gradually, figuring out how to put electronic devices together without so much as cracking a book... 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.”

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97. “I just was non-political and didn’t see myself as a person who could push people around, make their decision and tell them how lousy their work was.”

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98. “If you read the same things as others and say the same things they say, then you’re perceived as intelligent. I’m a bit more independent and radical and consider intelligence the ability to think about matters on your own and ask a lot of skeptical questions to get at the real truth, not just what you’re told it is.”

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