Steve Wozniak

“For an early tech team, I almost used, like, this Apple framework of Jobs, Wozniak, and Cook, right? Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak started Apple together. Steve Jobs was known as somebody who really was great at setting the vision and direction, but also was ju…”

“Woz writes, the whole thing used 45 chips, and Steve paid me half the 700 bucks he said they paid him. They were paying us based on how few chips I could do it in. Later I found out he got paid a bit more for it. Like a few thousand dollars than he said at the…”

“Of the 22 chips in the standard controller, only two were actually needed.”

“Every computer before the Apple One had a front panel of switches and lights, he noted. Every computer since has had a keyboard and a screen.”

“He didn't realize it then, but this was the first time in history anyone had typed on a keyboard and seen it appear on their own computer screen.”

“So they started selling these little blue boxes for 150 dollars each, splitting the revenue. It was their first business together.”

“Throughout my career at Apple and other places, you always find a lot of geeks who try to reach levels without doing the in-between ones first, and it won't work. It never does. That's just cognitive development. Plain and simple. You can't teach somebody two …”

“He took his own shares and sold them at a deeply discounted price to 40 colleagues. Who'd been left out after the IPO. He was giving away shares to people he felt deserved them. He called it the Woz plan.”

“I don't believe anything really revolutionary has ever been invented by committee, because the committee would never agree on it.”

“Job's closed system only worked because Wozniak's open system funded them. The Apple II kept the company alive for years. Its profits bankrolled everything that came after. Those eight expansion slots Wozniak fought for Became the financial engine that allowed…”

“So he gave himself a constraint. 20 chips. Most computers use hundreds.”

“That was the power of the open architecture. Every third-party company that made a product for the Apple II became, in effect, a marketing arm for Apple. Every ad they bought, every review they got, every innovation they created made the Apple II more valuable…”

“I see now that HP would have done it wrong anyway”

“Steve's IQ tested over 200.”

“To be the only person in the world with their own version of Pong at home, and he'd do it his way with just 28 chips. He completed this a year before Atari released their home version.”

“Steve Wozniak left Apple in 1985, and to this day he remains on Apple's payroll in this ceremonial position.”

“Since I could never build my designs, all I could do is try and beat my own designs by redesigning them even better, using fewer parts. I was competing with myself and developed tricks that certainly would never be describable or put in books. I had a hunch af…”

“Yeah, so the open one that Wozniak had created where people could put their own components in, take it apart, that was keeping them afloat. And Steve's version of the computer, which was closed and sort of more controlled, which is a theme I think we're gonna …”