The Coding Nirvana Project: Steve - The Woz

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

troubleshooting means testing if you can throw a coumputer out of the window © Steve Jobs

Coding Yields of Mister Steve Wozniak

_ Creator of the Apple I Computer

_ Creator of the Apple II Computer

More Coding Quotes of Steve Wozniak

_ Steve didn't ever code. He wasn't an engineer and he didn't do any original design, but he was technical enough to alter and change and add to other designs. I did all of the Apple I and Apple II and all of the BASIC myself.

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

_ 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.

_ 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.

_ 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.

_ Although I was the sole logic designer and programmer and 'inventor' in this sense, the contributions of others, especially Steve Jobs, were critical to how this computer struck the world. Without a nicely packaged product in an attractive, acceptable plastic case that said 'I'm OK in your home,' this product would have died like the other hobby computers for nerds. Apple was successful not just because of a great piece of hardware but because of the right communications and the complete product (including manuals and ads and our employees and priorities) the world got the message that it was time to change a lot of things in our lives. Steve Jobs truly deserves the visionary credit here.

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

_ I learned early on that you can tell people things - crazy jokes and stories - and people will usually believe them.

_ There was a time that we stood for the average person more than for our own company's growth and size and revenues. It's funny but there are a good number of people in Apple right now that still have these same sorts of feelings, about the soul of the company being [about the average person rather than about money]. It's much harder to associate the soul of Microsoft with anyone. It's hard to imagine the soul of Microsoft, right?

_ I've always had this technical side and then this human side. For instance, I remember telling my dad when I was ten that when I grew up, I wanted to be an engineer like him, but I also remember saying I wanted to be a fifth-grade teacher, like Miss Skrak at my school. ... Anyone you meet who knows me will tell you that that is exactly me - an engineer, but an engineer who worries about people a lot.

_ I don't really know what Gates' and Jobs' feelings are about each other. I think that Steve is probably a little jealous that Bill wasn't smarter but wound up with the mass market dollar.

_ 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.

_ I want the entire smartphone, the entire Internet, on my wrist.

_ 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.

_ 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.

_ Your first projects aren't the greatest things in the world, and they may have no money value, they may go nowhere, but that is how you learn - you put so much effort into making something right if it is for yourself.

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.

_ In the end, I hope there's a little note somewhere that says I designed a good computer.