Frases de Steve Wozniak

“Estou surpreso com a extensão do fanatismo. Mas isso realmente acontece quando as empresas ou as escolas se posicionam e proíbem a outra plataforma. Nós, usuários do Mac, devemos ser bons mesmo quando o outro lado estiver ruim. Devemos fazer o que pudermos para aceitar as outras plataformas. Todas as melhores pessoas da vida parecem gostar do LINUX.”

“Se você ama o que faz e está disposto a fazer o que for preciso, então está ao seu alcance. E valerá cada minuto que você passar sozinho à noite, pensando e pensando sobre o que você quer projetar ou construir. Vai valer a pena, prometo.”

“Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window”

“Wherever smart people work, doors are unlocked.”

“I wanted my own computer my whole life.”

“If you love what you do and are willing to do what it 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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“The transition to a GUI, and eventually to one close to a Macintosh, was a far greater step than refinements since. Some of these are just simple alternatives, which can't be over-valued due to increasing the complexity of having less consistency in how things are done. Others of these are more akin to rearranging the furniture. The great change was in becoming a modern GUI machine. In that sense, virtually every machine is a 'Macintosh' now.”

“Soldering things together, putting the chips together, designing them, drawing them on drafting tables — it was so much a passion in my life. And to this day, I'll go stay at the bottom of the org chart being an engineer, because that's where I want to be.”

“Creative things have to sell to get acknowledged as such. 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.”

“I went drinking with Gray Powell and all I got was a lousy iPhone prototype.”

“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. But I'd never call myself a normal designer of anything.”

“I also like to ride Segways. How much fun that is! Anybody think that's fun? I hope so… There's an awful lot of people in the world that sneer at Segways because other people are having fun. There must be something bad about it. But I always tell people, that hey, these Segways are so environmentally conscious. I carry four of them in the trunk of my Hummer.”

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

“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. All the best people in life seem to like LINUX.”

“I never lie, even to this day. Not even a little. Unless you count playing pranks on people, which I don't. That's comedy. Entertainment doesn't count. A joke is different from a lie, even if the difference is kind of subtle.”

“It had to be that artistically perfect, because it represents yourself when you do a great design.”

“Steve Jobs doesn't use a Mac, and won't, because it's too crappy in his opinion.”