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" 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. "
Steve Wozniak
Engineering
Programming
Focus
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" I just believe that the way that 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. "
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" When I have spare time, I catch up on things I've had to postpone due to lack of time. "
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" 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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" 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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" After the Apple II was introduced, then came the Commodore and the Tandy TRS-80. "
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" 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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" I want the entire smartphone, the entire Internet, on my wrist. "
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" You can make something big when young that will carry you through life. Look at all the big startups like Microsoft, Apple, Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc. They were all started by very young people who stumbled on something of unseen value. You'll know it when you hit a home run. "
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" I want to be able to speak with errors in my wording, errors in my grammar. When you type things into Google search, it corrects your words. With speech, I want it to be general enough, smart enough, to know 'No, he couldn't have meant these words that I think he said. He must have really meant something similar.' "
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" 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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Company
Know
Famous
" 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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" When the Internet first came, I thought it was just the beacon of freedom. People could communicate with anyone, anywhere, and nobody could stop it. "
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People
" 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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Worry
Yourself
You
" 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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Open
Real
Be Nice
" Although I receive a small salary from Apple, I do virtually no real work at the company. "
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Small
Real
Company
" There are good things I see on Samsung phones that I wish were in my iPhone. I wish Apple would use them and could use them, and I don't know if Samsung would stop us. "
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Apple
Wish
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" I wish to God that Apple and Google were partners in the future. "
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Apple
Wish
I Wish
" 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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Time
Myself
Great
" 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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Price
Month
Next
" 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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Made
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Science
" Atari is a very sad story. "
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" 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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" Wherever smart people work, doors are unlocked. "
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People
Smart
" My whole life had been designing computers I could never build. "
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Build
Had
Life
" 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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" 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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You
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" 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. "
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Me
Hero
" 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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You
Time
" Hard disks have disappointed me more than most technologies. "
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Disappointed
More
" 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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Done
Time