Wherever smart people work, doors are unlocked.
Steve WozniakRead
Our first computers were born not out of greed or ego, but in the revolutionary spirit of helping common people rise above the most powerful institutions.
Interpretation
This quote highlights the altruistic origins of computers, emphasizing their role in empowering individuals against powerful entities.
Steve Wozniak reflects on the true purpose behind the creation of the first computers, arguing that they were designed to serve the common good rather than for selfish motives. This revolutionary spirit was aimed at enabling everyday people to overcome the dominance of established institutions, suggesting that technology can be a force for democratization and empowerment.
In practice
During a tech conference, while discussing the history of computing.
Wherever smart people work, doors are unlocked.
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.
My goal wasn't to make a ton of money. It was to build good computers. I only started the company when I realized I could be an engineer forever.
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
Every dream I've ever had in life has come true ten times over.
My dream was actually just to have a computer some day. If I'd imagined that it meant starting a company to sell them, I probably would have avoided the whole thing.
Innovation has nothing to do with how many R & D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R & D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.
We wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters.
The expansive anarchy of the Internet continues to lull us into believing that, because we can see something, that something should be seen. Because we can say something, there is something that must be said.
The gulf between what the press and many regular people believe Bitcoin is, and what a growing critical mass of technologists believe Bitcoin is, remains enormous.
As a writer of fiction who deals with technology, I necessarily deal with the history of technology and the history of technologically induced social change. I roam up and down it in a kind of special way because I roam down it into history, which is invariably itself a speculative affair.
In many ways, I am very happy about the whole Linux commercial market because the commercial market is doing all these things that I have absolutely zero interest in doing myself.
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