Geburtsdatum | Freitag, 11. August 1950 |
Geburtsort | San Jose, California, U.S. |
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Beschreibung | Stephen Gary Wozniak (/ˈwɒzniæk/; geboren am 11. August 1950), auch bekannt unter seinem Spitznamen "Woz", ist ein amerikanischer Elektronikingenieur, Computerprogrammierer, Philanthrop, Erfinder und Technologieunternehmer. Zusammen mit seinem Geschäftspartner Steve Jobs gründete er 1976 das Unternehmen Apple Computer, das später zum weltweit größten Technologieunternehmen nach Umsatz und zum größten Unternehmen der Welt nach Marktkapitalisierung wurde. Durch seine Arbeit bei Apple in den 1970er und 1980er Jahren gilt er weithin als einer der bedeutendsten Pioniere der Personal Computer Revolution. |
My whole life had been designing computers I could never build.
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.
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.
Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window.
If I designed a computer with 200 chips, I tried to design it with 150. And then I would try to design it with 100. I just tried to find every trick I could in life to design things real tiny.
It would be nice to design a real briefcase - you open it up and it's your computer but it also stores your books.
My goal wasn't to make a ton of money. It was to build good computers.
What I was proud of was that I used very few parts to build a computer that could actually speak words on a screen and type words on a keyboard and run a programming language that could play games. And I did all this myself.
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.
