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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

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Steve Wozniak
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: August 11
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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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My goal wasn't to make a ton of money. It was to build good computers.
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My whole life had been designing computers I could never build.
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To give of yourself is much more important than giving a gift you can buy.
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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.
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