Steve Wozniak Quotes

My dad and mom did what a lot of parents did at the time. They sacrificed a lot of their life and used a lot of their disposable income to make sure their children were educated.

If I can't afford a house, or afford to keep it, I don't want to have it.

Technology keeps progressing. Young people follow the curve. But as they get older, they get inertia, and they start deviating from that curve.

Drive inexpensive cars, but own the best house you can afford.

Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road.

For example, it's only about 20 years ago the people in that community would have got telephone lines, and it would be only about in the 1950s that electricity came to that part of the world. Television wouldn't have come till 1970.

My dad is often horrified by what I've spent my money on.

The over-all point is that new technology will not necessarily replace old technology, but it will date it. By definition. Eventually, it will replace it. But it's like people who had black-and-white TVs when color came out. They eventually decided whether or not the new technology was worth the investment.

We've seen the power of the PC, and we've seen that it's unstoppable.

Now, if you're Al Gore, you can afford $10 a pop for squiggly-pig-tailed fluorescent light bulbs. But if you're mainstream America, two or three kids, mom and dad working outside the home, that's not a very good deal.

The first calculators tended to sell for $400 or $500. Today, you can get a pretty good one for 4 or $5.

How could 30 years be the blink-of-the-eye it felt? It was the difference between black-and-white footage of the Second World War and David Bowie on 'Top of the Pops' singing 'Life on Mars.'

I wanted to be a mechanic. When I was 14 I wanted to quit school and go work on my car. But my dad said Son, you shouldn't do that. You should stay in school until your education is finished, and when you're done, don't make your hobby your job.

Technological 'revolutions' don't really overthrow anything - they simply append a new and dynamic market to that which went before.

Whenever culture has gone through a radical change, as ours has - from industrial age to information age - there are people who will deny that things have changed; they resist it and refuse to change.

A society without civil, political, and property rights may indeed find it difficult to innovate innovation outside the military sector, but it often has a relatively easy time adopting technologies that have already been developed elsewhere.

We know that the hardest work is to keep yourself open to the world that technology hasn't tamed.

People tend to overestimate the short-term impact of technological change. In the short-term, it's not going to make that much of a difference.

You save money so your kids can go to college - no matter what they are or who they are. They're your kids; you gotta support them.

Every technological revolution takes about 50 years.

We are not even close to finishing the basic dream of what the PC can be.

Nobody expects that just because they've made computers better they're going to give them to you free.

I think that every generation will say that technology has gone too far. That's probably always going to be the case. We can't even imagine what our children will have in their adult lives.

The average person that lives in Sydney, if they want to buy a house in Sydney, that shouldn't be out of reach for them.

I didn't want to be a deadbeat dad, so I said, 'OK, my mission is to provide for my son in the future,'