読書の記録『iWoz』

iWoz

Steve Wozniak, , 2012-09-12,

He first started telling me things and explaining things about electronics when I was really, really young - before I was even four years old.

I'd been tested for IQ and they told us it was 200-plus.

I believe technology moves us forward. Always.

I was just starting to figure out that the secret to life - and this is still true for me - is to find a way to be happy and satisfied with your life and also to make other people happy and satisfied with their lives.

Anyway, I never liked alcohol. It made people act noisy and out of control.

I had an ochre-coloured Pinto at this time - and drove it back to Berkeley.

If I hadn't gotten in the car accident that year, I wouldn't have quit school and I might never have started Apple. It's weird how things happen.

Then I realized what the Altair was - that computer everyone was so excited about at the meeting. It was exactly like the Cream Soda Computer I'd designed five years before!

Every computer before the Apple 1 had that front panel of switches and lights. Every computer since has a keyboard and a screen.

I needed to hear one person saying that I could stay at the bottom of the organization chart, as an engineer, and not have to be a manager.

(Why did the Apple 3 have so many problems) It's because the Apple 3 was not developed by a single engineer or a couple of engineers working together.

Well, first you need to believe in yourself. Don't waver.

But the world isn't black and white. It's gray scale. As an inventor, you have to see things in gray scale.

If you're that rare engineer who's an inventor and also an artist, I'm going to give you some advice that might be hard to take. That advice is: Work alone.

And it'll be worth every minute you spend alone at night, thinking and thinking about what it is you want to design or build. It'll be worth it, I promise.