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

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Steve Wozniak
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: August 11
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I wanted to be an elementary school teacher my whole life.
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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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Geek it's really more a characteristic where you don't socialize. You don't talk the normal languages.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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For some reason I get this key position of being one of two people that started the company that started the revolution.
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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.
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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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He [Steve Jobs] had more of the future vision: We can bring this to everyone we can start a company we can sell it.
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