110+ Steve Wozniak Quotes On Education, Technology And Money

Steve Wozniak was an American businessman and computer scientist who co-founded Apple Inc. with Steve Jobs. He was responsible for designing the Apple I and Apple II computers in the 1970s, which revolutionized the personal computer industry. He is also known for his philanthropy in the tech industry and for his invention of the first universal remote control. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Steve Wozniak on education, leadership, technology.

Top 10 Steve Wozniak Quotes

1. If you love what you do and are willing to do what it takes, it's within your reach.
2. I wish to God that Apple and Google were partners in the future.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. Wherever smart people work, doors are unlocked.
6. Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window.
7. I think Bitcoin is going to go to 100000.
8. 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.
9. The easier it is to do something, the harder it is to change the way you do it.
10. Steve Jobs doesn't use a Mac, and won't, because it's too crappy in his opinion.

Steve Wozniak Short Quotes

• When you stop and think about it, a smartphone is basically a whistle you can carry.
• I wanted to be funny. And I'm always acknowledged for my pranks and jokes nowadays.
• College just didn't even have computers for an under-curriculum when I started college.
• I went drinking with Gray Powell and all I got was a lousy iPhone prototype.
• Did you really invent the computer, or am I being pranked right now?
• To give of yourself is much more important than giving a gift you can buy.
• Atari is a very sad story.
• With the cloud, you don't own anything. You already signed it away.
• I really worry about everything going to the cloud.
• In the end, I hope there's a little note somewhere that says I designed a good computer.

Steve Wozniak Quotes About Education

I want to get back to education. When I was in college I paid attention to child psychology portions of our psychology classes. I watch other people work with babies. And I saw the baby as developing like a computer and it intrigued me in my life. I wanted to do that. — Steve Wozniak

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. — Steve Wozniak

I have always respected education, which is why I actually went back secretly and taught school for eight years. — Steve Wozniak

Steve Wozniak Quotes About Technology

Hard disks have disappointed me more than most technologies. — Steve Wozniak

Steve Jobs made the case to Xerox PARC execs directly that they had great technology but that Apple knew how to make it affordable enough to change the world. This was very open. In the end, Xerox got a large block of Apple stock for sharing the technology. That's not stealing outright. — Steve Wozniak

You should stay closely connected to the technology when you start your company. — Steve Wozniak

Rockets are bad technology. iPhones are good technology — Steve Wozniak

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. — Steve Wozniak

Steve Wozniak Quotes About Money

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. — Steve Wozniak

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. — Steve Wozniak

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. — Steve Wozniak

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. — Steve Wozniak

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. — Steve Wozniak

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

Steve Wozniak Quotes About Steve Jobs

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. — Steve Wozniak

I started passing out the schematics and the code listings for the computer, telling everyone here it is. It's small, it's simple, it's inexpensive: Build your own. No idea to start a company. Steve Jobs came by later and say, you know, people are interested. Why don't we start a company? — Steve Wozniak

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. — Steve Wozniak

He [Steve Jobs] had come from the surplus electronics parts world.So he came from that world, and he said let's sell PC boards for $40. We'll build them for $20 and sell them for $40. — Steve Wozniak

He [Steve Jobs] had more of the future vision: We can bring this to everyone; we can start a company; we can sell it. — Steve Wozniak

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. — Steve Wozniak

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. — Steve Wozniak

Steve Wozniak Quotes About Real

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

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

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. — 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

Steve Wozniak Quotes About People

A lot of hacking is playing with other people, you know, getting them to do strange things. — Steve Wozniak

All the best people in life seem to like LINUX. — Steve Wozniak

I never got into Linux. I swear to God, it's only lack of time. I'm past the years of my life where I can really dig into something like running a Linux system. I'm very sympathetic to the whole idea; Linux people always think the way I want to think. — 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

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. — Steve Wozniak

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. — Steve Wozniak

I do not like to talk about the future. I don't like to be one of those people. It's so easy to have a very vague idea and say, oh, computers will be 3D-ish and then 10 years later I'll say I predicted it 10 years ahead. I don't think that's honest and I don't think that's valid and worth anything. — Steve Wozniak

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. — Steve Wozniak

It's a lot easier to think of an app and write it than it is to convince people to want it. — Steve Wozniak

Bill Gates did predict that computers for people made sense because he wrote a basic. — Steve Wozniak

Steve Wozniak Quotes About Life

I am the person I want to be. I got to teach and had some of the greatest times in my life learning that I had some teaching skills and doing some incredible things teaching 200 hours of computers a year to fifth graders, making them experts at certain things. — Steve Wozniak

The first Apple was just a culmination of my whole life. — 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

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. — Steve Wozniak

Not everything in life can go perfectly according to plan. I mean I didn't keep every girlfriend I ever had. — Steve Wozniak

I think everything I have done in my life, my reasons at the time were right no matter how things worked out. — Steve Wozniak

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. — Steve Wozniak

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

Every dream I've ever had in life has come true ten times over. — Steve Wozniak

I went - 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. — Steve Wozniak

Steve Wozniak Quotes About Jobs

I absolutely do not need a salary or a job, that's the last thing I need. — Steve Wozniak

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. — Steve Wozniak

The way I did it, every job was A+. — Steve Wozniak

We truly could have used the later Jobs in earlier years at Apple, is what I feel. — Steve Wozniak

Steve Wozniak Famous Quotes And Sayings

I hope you're as lucky as I am. The world needs inventors--great ones. You can be one. If you love what you do and are willing to do what it really takes, it's within your reach. And it'll be worth every minute you spend alone at night, thinking and thinking about what it is you want to design or build. It'll be worth it, I promise. — Steve Wozniak

I believe you should have a world where you’ve got to license something at a fair price. 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. — Steve Wozniak

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! — Steve Wozniak

All of a sudden, we've lost a lot of control,' he said. 'We can't turn off our internet; we can't turn off our smartphones; we can't turn off our computers. You used to ask a smart person a question. Now, who do you ask? It starts with g-o, and it's not God. — 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

I went and I started teaching computers to young kids, to fifth graders at first, later to sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth graders. I also started teaching teachers. And that was back in the days when we'd wire up the labs ourselves and crimp on the Ethernet connectors and then we would. — 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

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 — Steve Wozniak

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. — Steve Wozniak

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. — Steve Wozniak

I'm surprised at the extent of the bigotry. But it really plays out when companies or schools take a side and prohibit the other platform at all. We Mac users should be good even when the other side is bad. We should do what we can to accept the other platforms. — 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

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

I think that the anti-Microsoft sentiment is simply due to their having been so successful selling a lot of crap. — Steve Wozniak

Like people including Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk have predicted, I agree that the future is scary and very bad for people. If we build these devices to take care of everything for us, eventually they'll think faster than us and they'll get rid of the slow humans to run companies more efficiently. — Steve Wozniak

You have to seek the simplest implementation of a problem solution in order to know when you've reached your limit in that regard. Then it's easy to make tradeoffs, to back off a little, for performance reasons. You can simplify and simplify and simplify yet still find other incredible ways to simplify further. — Steve Wozniak

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. — Steve Wozniak

I think Apple's revenge is just the fact that Windows, you know, PCs all became Macintoshes in a way. — Steve Wozniak

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. — Steve Wozniak

I have never left the company. I keep a tiny residual salary to this day because that's where my loyalty should be forever. I want to be an "employee" on the company data base. I won't engineer, I'd rather be basically retired, due to my family. (talking about his relationship with Apple Inc) — Steve Wozniak

After the Apple II was introduced, then came the Commodore and the Tandy TRS-80. — Steve Wozniak

Somebody who's designing something for himself has at least got a market of one that he's very close to. — Steve Wozniak

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. — Steve Wozniak

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. — Steve Wozniak

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. — Steve Wozniak

I'm also a fan with sticking with the most standard software that millions of other users also use, because you get the benefit of all those other users' problems and solutions. — Steve Wozniak

I was kind of amazed because I first found out about blue boxes in an article in Esquire magazine labeled fiction. That article was the most truthful article I've ever read in my life... That article was so truthful, and it told about a mistake in the phone company that let you dial phone calls anywhere in the world. What an amazing thing to discover. — Steve Wozniak

All through time in Apple products, even from our very first ones, that's how he [Steve Jobs] looked at the world, that you don't really want a piece of technology, a certain type of chip. What you want is a solution to a problem in life, some cause, some issue that you want in your life that'll help you. And it's how do you make that almost one step - say it and it happens. — Steve Wozniak

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. — Steve Wozniak

I read Google News and use NetNewsWire to keep up with general and tech news. — Steve Wozniak

Artists work best alone. Work alone. — Steve Wozniak

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. — Steve Wozniak

I just was non-political and didn't see myself as a person who could push people around, make their decision, you know, and tell them how lousy their work was. — Steve Wozniak

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. — Steve Wozniak

Everything we did we were setting the tone for the world. — Steve Wozniak

The people I recommend the iPhone 4S for are the ones who are already in the Mac world, because it's so compatible, and people who are just scared of computers altogether and don't want to use them. The iPhone is the least frightening thing. For that kind of person who is scared of complexity, well, here's a phone that is simple to use and does what you need it to do. — Steve Wozniak

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. — Steve Wozniak

Geek it's really more a characteristic where you don't socialize. You don't talk the normal languages. — Steve Wozniak

I was born to teach. I have always had this gift with children. — Steve Wozniak

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. — Steve Wozniak

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. — Steve Wozniak

For some reason I get this key position of being one of two people that started the company that started the revolution. — Steve Wozniak

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. — Steve Wozniak

I am also atheist or agnostic (I don't even know the difference). I've never been to church and prefer to think for myself. — Steve Wozniak

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. — Steve Wozniak

I've never really been associated with the hackers very much. I am sympathetic to them. I understand how their mind works. It's like a child that is born and wants to explore every little - open up every little drawer there is and find out how the world works. — Steve Wozniak

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. — Steve Wozniak

I saw lots of music devices. I loved playing with music devices. And like most of the world, I thought of a music device as a music device. Steve Jobs tends to look beyond that, and he doesn't see a music device as having any importance at all - how fast it is, how many songs it can hold, and all that - he sees music itself to a person as a being the important thing. — Steve Wozniak

Pretty much I want to be Steve Wozniak, who I decided I was at a young age and not change. I want to go back to school and get my college degree like I would have without Apple. I want to teach young kids like I would have without Apple. And part of it is I'm accessible. I'm open. And so many people e-mail me and get me. And as much as I can I try to answer people, listen to them, be polite and say yes. — Steve Wozniak

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. — Steve Wozniak

Back in high school I told my dad, "I'm going to have a computer someday." And he said that it cost as much as a house-the downpayment on a house. And I said, "Well, I'll live in an apartment." — Steve Wozniak

I don't believe anything really revolutionary has ever been invented by committee... I'm going to give you some advice that might be hard to take. That advice is: Work alone... Not on a committee. Not on a team. — Steve Wozniak

Life Lessons by Steve Wozniak

1. Steve Wozniak taught us that hard work, dedication, and creativity can lead to great success. He showed us that it is possible to achieve success through innovation and perseverance.
2. He also demonstrated the importance of collaboration and teamwork, as he worked with Steve Jobs to create Apple and revolutionize the tech industry.
3. Lastly, Steve Wozniak showed us the power of taking risks and following our passions, no matter how unconventional they may seem.