Steve Wozniak Quotes

Reducing a product's definition to a list of features and functions ignores the real opportunity - orchestrating technological capability to serve human needs and goals.

The most important innovators often don't need any technologies - just imagination and acute sensitivity to people's needs.

I have sometimes thought the power of computers had exceeded our ability to use them, but Mr. Jobs and his team kept giving us devices that made indispensable things easier in ways you never thought of.

We truly could have used the later Jobs in earlier years at Apple, is what I feel.

There's a fundamental problem with how the software business does things. We're asking people who are masters of hard-edged technology to design the soft, human side of software as well. As a result, they make products that are really cool - if you happen to be a software engineer.

What new technology does is create new opportunities to do a job that customers want done.

Design is directed toward human beings. To design is to solve human problems by identifying them and executing the best solution.

There really was nothing like it at the time. We had good ideas for implementation, so we proceeded. I think it was an excellent solution to the reliability issues with existing search engines.

One thing most people don't know is that Steve Jobs is an exceptional designer.

The rise of Google, the rise of Facebook, the rise of Apple, I think are proof that there is a place for computer science as something that solves problems that people face every day.

Most of all, I discovered that in order to succeed with a product you must truly get to know your customers and build something for them.

Drones are not going to solve the problem alone but they are part of the package.

We try to develop products that seem somehow inevitable, that leave you with the sense that that's the only possible solution that makes sense.

I'm most comfortable at the intersection of technology and helping people; that's really what gets me going and gets me excited and what I get most passionate about.

I don't think Apple would be making the computers, the iPhone, being the top electronics company it is, if Steve Jobs didn't have some regrets over mistakes he made and learned to overcome them.

Steve Jobs knows how to hold his hand out, to build beautiful products and make people pay for them.

It is incredibly powerful if you solve the problem you actually have yourself. It's really tough to develop a good product when you don't have very close proximity to the people who actually use your product. The closest proximity you can have to those people is to be that person.

Your job isn’t to make money. It’s to find a problem that needs solving.

I met Steve Jobs once. In '06? He had a sense of humor.

There may be no greater tribute to Steve Jobs' success than the fact that much of the world learned of his passing on a device he invented.

The iPod is a perfect example of Steve's [Jobs] methodology of starting with the user and looking at the entire end-to-end system.

The defining character of Steve Jobs isn't his genius, it isn't his talent, it isn't his success. It's his love. That's why crowds came to see him. You could feel that. It sounds ridiculous to talk about love when you are making a gadget. But Steve loved his work, he loved the products he produced, and it was palpable. He communicated that love through bits of steel and plastic.

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

It turns out that is exactly what product strategy is all about—figuring out the right product is the innovator’s job, not the customer’s job.

To the engineer falls the job of clothing the bare bones of science with life, comfort, and hope.