iWoz Quotes

“social games. The Vietnam War only solidified that attitude. That’s why I was sure, even at twenty-two, that I didn’t want to switch from engineering to management, ever. I didn’t want to go into management and have to fight political battles and take sides and step on people’s toes and all that stuff.”
― Steve Wozniak, iWoz: Computer Geek to Cult Icon

“Even HP had to cut back 10 percent on its expenses. But instead of laying people off, HP wound up cutting everyone’s salary by 10 percent. That way, no one would be left without a job.”
― Steve Wozniak, iWoz: Computer Geek to Cult Icon

“Now, Joe had perfect pitch—probably because he was blind, I don’t know. His first whistle seized the line, and then he could make a bunch of short whistles to dial numbers. I couldn’t believe this was possible, but there it was and, wow, it just made my imagination run wild.”
― Steve Wozniak, iWoz: Computer Geek to Cult Icon

“I mean, I was for my country the same way you root for your school’s team, right or wrong.”
― Steve Wozniak, iWoz: Computer Geek to Cult Icon

“Because I could never afford the parts to build any of my computer designs, all I could do was design them on paper.”
― Steve Wozniak, iWoz: Computer Geek to Cult Icon

“without having to actually walk up to someone and ask questions. I was too shy to even go to a library and ask for a book on computers called Computers.”
― Steve Wozniak, iWoz: Computer Geek to Cult Icon

“little,”
― Steve Wozniak, I, Woz: Computer Geek to Cult Icon - Getting to the Core of Apple's Inventor

“It wasn’t very long after I’d divorced Alice and met Candi that we decided to get married. She had an uncle down in San Diego who made jewelry, and I had this idea. Let’s get a ring for me, I said, that has the diamond on the inside so nobody can see it. I thought that would be more special than a normal ring.”
― Steve Wozniak, iWoz: Computer Geek to Cult Icon

“Well, even if we lose our money, we’ll have a company. For once in our lives, we’ll have a company.”
― Steve Wozniak, I, Woz: Computer Geek to Cult Icon - Getting to the Core of Apple's Inventor

“He took the time—a lot of time—to show me those few little things. They were little things to him, even though Fairchild and Texas Instruments had just developed the transistor only a decade earlier.”
― Steve Wozniak, iWoz: Computer Geek to Cult Icon