I like cleverness, too - it’s very much like creativity. Some people go to comedy clubs, some watch sitcoms, some watch comedy movies. What about pranks fascinates you so much? I wanted to show off my design techniques - and help the world get to this big, revolutionary The other thing that comes through in your book is that you’re quite the prankster. I could have been an engineer for the rest of my life, had enough income to be happy and designed things in my spare time. That year was the year it was possible.Īs far as starting a company - no, I was so happy with my job. I knew I’d build a computer when it was possible. I could just do magic that other people couldn’t do. Wozniak: I was very skilled at a certain kind of computer design. So I started thinking, “Woah, I’m good at From reading iWoz one gets the sense that you were an “accidental entrepreneur” rather than someone who set out to found a company.

And the teacher said that was really strange. school, we had a multiplication test and I beat the girls. And then about third grade my mom practiced flash cards with me in the kitchen. I’d go to where he worked and see him hook up wires and get signals to appear on screen.īut I wasn’t sure I was cut out for that. Steve Wozniak: I can’t pin it down to an exact date. An edited version of that conversation What got you originally excited about math and science? In 2006, he published iWoz: From Computer Geek to Cult Icon: How I Invented the Personal Computer, Co-Founded Apple, and Had Fun Doing It, about his life before, during and after spoke with Wozniak by phone from his home in Los Gatos, Calif., on a wide range of topics. Wozniak was eventually awarded the National Medal of Technology by President Ronald Reagan in 1985, among many other honors. For example, it was Jobs, four-and-a-half years younger than Wozniak, who suggested the two sell Wozniak’s “blue box” device to students in the dorms at Berkeley. Wozniak’s early entrepreneurial ventures were closely intertwined with Jobs’ own. Steve Wozniak, or “Woz” as he is commonly called, is best known for co-founding Apple along with high school friend Steve Jobs. BEPP 0001: Business Economics and Public Policy.HCMG 0001: Introduction to Health Economics.STAT 0002: Introduction to Statistics and Data Science.

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