Steve Wozniak

Another hero was Tom Swift, in the books. What he stood for, the freedom, the scientific knowledge and being and engineer gave him the ability to invent solutions to problems. He's always been a hero to me. I buy old Tom Swift books now and read them to my own children.Steve Wozniak

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.Steve Wozniak

Atari is a very sad story.Steve Wozniak

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.Steve Wozniak

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.Steve Wozniak

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

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

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

My whole life had been designing computers I could never build.Steve Wozniak

Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window.Steve Wozniak

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

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.Steve Wozniak

Wherever smart people work, doors are unlocked.Steve Wozniak

Steve Wozniak is a famous American computer programmer and electronics engineer, who was born on August 11, 1950. As a person born on this date, Steve Wozniak is listed in our database as the 9th most popular celebrity for the day (August 11) and the 7th most popular for the year (1950).

People born on August 11 fall under the Zodiac sign of Leo, the Lion. Steve Wozniak is the 302nd most popular Leo.

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