Steve Wozniak Quotes

I made tons of films. I did animation for my friends' films. I animated scenes just for the fun of it. Most of my stuff was bad, but I had fun, and I tried everything I knew to get better.

We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee to fail intelligently... to experiment over and over again and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

Your first projects aren't the greatest things in the world, and they may have no money value, they may go nowhere, but that is how you learn - you put so much effort into making something right if it is for yourself.

The three foundations of judgement: Bold Design, Constant Practice, and Frequent Mistakes.

I try to take things that challenge me either physically or mentally, or I have to learn a new skill.

You're unlikely to discover something new without a lot of practice on old stuff, but further, you should get a heck of a lot of fun out of working out funny relations and interesting things.

As I see it, whoever's doing the inventing is also doing most of the learning - and probably having most of the fun.

I love mistakes because it's the only way you learn.

You don't learn from a situation where you do something well. You enjoy it and you give yourself credit, but you don't really learn from that. You learn from trial and error, trial and error, all the time.

You've got to push yourself harder. You've got to start looking for pictures nobody else could take. You've got to take the tools you have and probe deeper.

Mistakes and dead-ends often mean more to these artists than any proven problem.

You can only be as good as you dare to be bad.

You've got to experiment to figure out what works.

What I learned with tech companies is I gotta give people room to experiment, and also what might later on be a mistake.

I began to do this thing I do of giving myself a class every day, and trying to experiment and push further. I don't mean to say I knew everything, because I didn't, but I would do what I knew and then push beyond that and see what else I could find.

I don't consider myself supremely talented, but I really like to try things and sift through it and see what mess I made.

I want to keep experimenting and trying to change my game.

I learn from my failures, but I will always try technical things; I will always try to take pleasure and do great things.

I think the most effective coaching for youth is to encourage them to try things, to be unique and be different.

I love any project where I get to push myself and learn new things.

I think if you're going to be a little bit innovative or risk-taking, sometimes you're going to be wrong, and it's going to look bad. I understand that.

The better a man is the more mistakes will he make – for the more new things he will try.

The only way you improve is to try new things.

I'm catching up. I'm satisfied with the show. I think I want to get better and better and keep building. It took a while to figure out how to do it. I didn't know how it was gonna go. I was just like, "I better book a show and just see what happens."

I am always doing what I can't do yet in order to learn how to do it.