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

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

All the best people in life seem to like LINUX.
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

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

Atari is a very sad story.
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

Creative things have to sell to get acknowledged as such.
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

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


Everything we did we were setting the tone for the world.
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

Hard disks have disappointed me more than most technologies.
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

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

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 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

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

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

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