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Stephen Gary Wozniak, also known by his nickname Woz, is an American technology entrepreneur, electrical engineer, computer programmer, and inventor. In 1976, he co-founded Apple Inc. with his early business partner Steve Jobs. Through his work at Apple in the 1970s and 1980s, he is widely recognized as one of the most prominent pioneers of the personal computer revolution.
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Letem světem Applem: Co-founder Apple Steve Wozniak surprised. He launched an e-shop with merch and his own wine
Letem světem Applem: Cofundador Apple Steve Wozniak Sorprendido. Lanzó una tienda en línea con productos y su propio vino.
The Verge: Steve Wozniak launched an online merch shop.
El Economista: Steve Wozniak, el otro fundador de Apple, revela sus tres consejos para el éxito: "No esperes a que alguien lo haga por ti, hazlo tú mismo"
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“We want to be the family pet and be taken care of all the time.”
“When starting Apple, I could never afford a teletype for input or output.”
The Press Democrat: Tech icon Steve Wozniak to be featured in Sonoma Speaker Series event
Yahoo: Apple’s Steve Wozniak says he cofounded the tech giant after 5 rejections from HP—not to ‘make money.’ For years, his paycheck was just $50
Benzinga.com: 1Steve Wozniak Was Apple's Original Rebel, His Teen Pranks Got Him Arrested...
Wozniak received the 2025 James C
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TechSpot: Steve Wozniak reflects on happiness and legacy on his 75th birthday
CBS News: Steve Wozniak on fighting internet scams
“I rarely post but Janet and I just listened to Apple In China. It’s a great book and the inner stories of how Apple became the biggest company. Real names are used throughout.”
“Abrego Garcia's wife: "I will not stop fighting until I see my husband alive. Kilmar, if you can hear me, stay strong. God hasn't forgotten about you. Our children are asking when you will come home ... they miss their dad so much."”
“From my daughter who is working with USA Surfing: USA Surfing, the internationally recognized body for surfing in the USA, develops and supports the most elite surfers in the world - with back-to-back gold medals in the past two Olympic Games!”
Yahoo: Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak lays into Elon Musk’s ‘mass firings’: ‘I don’t know what got into his head’
Inc.: Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak Criticizes DOGE and Elon Musk’s Management Style
Observer: Steve Wozniak Says A.I. Developers Can Take a Page Out of Apple’s Book
“Ours inn sheep’s clothing gizmodo.com/new-study-ba...”
“www.surfer.com/news/usa-sur...”
“They can use your support www.usasurfing.org”
“Group doing good for a U.S. team in the Olympics: www.surfer.com/news/shark-a...”
“Over years, I have a few times called Musk a liar (across the country by 2016, then 2017) and thief (money for upgrades), on national TV even. Maybe that’s why my Twitter account has been blocked for a few months despite violating no rules. I can’t get it fixed.”
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“Birth name was still Stephen Gary. I had to sue my county to change to Steve. My real birth certificate said Stephan, a mistake of my parents. I still had to go to the state of CA so that when I request a birth certificate I get both versions. I did this with no lawyers. www.cnn.com/2024/11/23/e...”
CNBC: Steve Wozniak: When I die, these are the moments I want to remember—they don't involve co-founding Apple
NBC New York: Steve Wozniak: When I die, these are the moments I want to remember—they don't involve co-founding Apple
Wozniak sued YouTube in respect to a scam that was being circulated on the platform using his likeness
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Hollywood Life: Steve Wozniak’s Health: All About the Apple Co-Founder’s Hospitalization
In early December 2023, Steve Wozniak spoke at a conference in Belgrade, Serbia, where he was granted Serbian citizenship through a "Citizenship by Exception" program.
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Published “Global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance in 2019: a systematic analysis” in The Lancet — cited 14,550 times.
Published “Global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance in 2019: a systematic analysis” in The Lancet — cited 14,025 times.
Wozniak received the museum's Lifetime Achievement award for his role in the invention of the Apple I & II computers and the co-founding Apple
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Awarded IEEE Masaru Ibuka Consumer Electronics Award (2021).
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Cult of Mac: Steve Wozniak - page 3
Wozniak received Polish citizenship and visited Poland to meet with government and technology industry representatives and to visit his father's [ancestral] hometown
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"I didn't want to be near money, because it could corrupt your values
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In 2017, Wozniak received Polish citizenship and visited Poland to meet with government and technology industry representatives and to visit his father's [ancestral] hometown.
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Wozniak changed his mind again, stating that he no longer worried about the possibility of superintelligence emerging because he is skeptical that computers will be able to compete with human "intuition": "A computer cou
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The Cal Alumni Association (UC Berkeley's Alumni Association) presented Wozniak with the 2015 Alumnus of the Year Award
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Wozniak received the Legacy for Children Award from the Children's Discovery Museum of San Jose
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“s opinion that machine intelligence would outpace human intelligence. But over time, Wozniak had changed his mind: I agree that the future is scary and very bad for people. If we build these devices to take care of everything for us, eventually they”
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At the American Museum of Natural History
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In Los Angeles, Wozniak was awarded the 66th Hoover Medal from IEEE President & CEO J
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Became chief scientist at Primary Data, which was founded by some former Fusion-io executives
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Appeared along with early Apple employees Daniel Kottke and Andy Hertzfeld on the television show John Wants Answers to discuss the movie Jobs
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Won Hoover Medal (2013).
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“Steve [Jobs] really took over the project when I had a plane crash and wasn”
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And has stated that he would like to live in Melbourne, Australia, in the future
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Appeared as himself on The Big Bang Theory season 4 episode "The Cruciferous Vegetable Amplification"
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“On a T-shirt making fun of Powell's plight, after having lost a next-generation iPhone prototype, as reported in "Woz has fun with leaked iPhone T-shirt" at cnet news (23 April 2010)”
As "the biggest techno-nerd in the Universe", Wozniak married Janet Hill, his current spouse
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Co-authored with Gina Smith his autobiography, iWoz: From Computer Geek to Cult Icon: How I Invented the Personal Computer, Co-Founded Apple, and Had Fun Doing It
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Wozniak stated that he and Jobs were not as close as they used to be
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Wheels of Zeus was closed, and Wozniak founded Acquicor Technology, a holding company for acquiring technology companies and developing them, with Apple alumni Hancock and Amelio
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“iWoz : Computer Geek to Cult Icon : How I Invented the Personal Computer, Co-Founded Apple, and Had Fun Doing It (2006)”
Wozniak was given the 5th Annual Telluride Tech Festival Award of Technology
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“The Fifth HOPE (Hackers on Planet Earth) Conference, Saturday keynote speech (10 July 2004)”
Wozniak has been referred to frequently by the nickname "Woz", or "The Woz"; he has also been called "The Wonderful Wizard of Woz" and "The Second Steve" (in regard to his early business partner and longtime friend, Steve Jobs). "WoZ" (short for "Wheels of Zeus") is the name of a company he founded in 2002; it closed in 2006.
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Joined the board of directors of Ripcord Networks, Inc
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Awarded Heinz Award (2001).
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Was awarded the 7th Annual Heinz Award for Technology, the Economy and Employment
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Wozniak founded Wheels of Zeus (WOZ) to create wireless GPS technology to "help everyday people find everyday things much more easily"
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Awarded National Inventors Hall of Fame (2000).
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Wozniak received the American Computer & Robotics Museum's George R
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“Commenting on Steve Jobs's stewardship after his return to Apple, before the release of Mac OS X, MacTech Vol. 14 No. 5 (May 1998)”
Was named a Fellow of the Computer History Museum "for co-founding Apple Computer and inventing the Apple I personal computer
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Co-authored with Larry Wilde The Official Computer Freaks Joke Book
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Awarded Computer History Museum Fellow (1997).
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(although the Apple IIe card, which allowed compatible Macintosh computers to run Apple II software and use certain Apple II peripherals, was produced until May 1995)
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“Nunca te fíes de un ordenador que no puedas tirar por la ventana». [Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window].”
“Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window”
“Steve Jobs doesn't use a Mac, and won't, because it's too crappy in his opinion.”
“Nunca confie em um computador que você não pode jogar por uma janela.”
“I went drinking with Gray Powell and all I got was a lousy iPhone prototype.”
“Vedevo sempre un tizio che scribacchiava dei diagrammi precisissimi su un pezzo di carta. Chiesi: "Che roba è?". Lui rispose: "Sto progettando un computer". Aveva imparato da solo come farlo. (Alan Baum, suo compagno alla Homestead high school)”
“Wherever smart people work, doors are unlocked.”
“Steve guarda alle cose in modo diverso. Dice: "Perché non provare questo?". È spinto a usare ogni tecnica di problem-solving, perché i progetti ordinari non sono soddisfacenti. Lui vuole essere il migliore. Farà cose a cui nessuno aveva pensato, usando ogni strategia. Ogni tanto, usando ogni strategia, trovi un modo migliore di fare le cose. (Alan Baum)”
“I also like to ride Segways. How much fun that is! Anybody think that's fun? I hope so... There's an awful lot of people in the world that sneer at Segways because other people are having fun. There must be something bad about it. But I always tell people, that hey, these Segways are so environmentally conscious. I carry four of them in the trunk of my Hummer.”
“A lot of hacking is playing with other people, you know, getting them to do strange things.”
“I'm surprised at the extent of the bigotry. But it really plays out when companies or schools take a side and prohibit the other platform at all. We Mac users should be good even when the other side is bad. We should do what we can to accept the other platforms. All the best people in life seem to like LINUX.”
“Letters-General Questions Answered" p. 1”
“Creative things have to sell to get acknowledged as such. Steve Jobs didn't really set the direction of my Apple I and Apple II designs but he did the more important part of turning them into a product that would change the world. I don't deny that.”
“Letters-General Questions Answered" p. 96”
“Some great people are leaders and others are more lucky, in the right place at the right time. I'd put myself in the latter category. But I'd never call myself a normal designer of anything.”
“Explaining his comment that now "Every PC is a Macintosh", "Letters-General Questions Answered" p. 105”
“I never lie, even to this day. Not even a little. Unless you count playing pranks on people, which I don't. That's comedy. Entertainment doesn't count. A joke is different from a lie, even if the difference is kind of subtle.”
“If you love what you do and are willing to do what it takes, it's within your reach. 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.”
“Sometimes you need a critical mass of loyal users that will instantly buy and go this direction...”
“Apple Must Keep Setting Standards or Lose Its Cool, Wozniak Says”
“It had to be that artistically perfect, because it represents yourself when you do a great design.”
“I wanted my own computer my whole life.”
“Soldering things together, putting the chips together, designing them, drawing them on drafting tables — it was so much a passion in my life. And to this day, I'll go stay at the bottom of the org chart being an engineer, because that's where I want to be.”
“Steve Wozniak Debunks One of Apple's Biggest Myths - YouTube”
Wozniak helped found the Electronic Frontier Foundation, providing some of the organization's initial funding and serving on its founding Board of Directors
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Won National Medal of Technology and Innovation (1985).
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Both he and Steve Jobs received the National Medal of Technology from US President Ronald Reagan, the country's highest honor for achievements related to technological progress
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Wozniak founded CL 9 and created the first programmable universal remote, released in 1987
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Which developed and brought the first programmable universal remote control to market in 1987, called the "CORE"
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Wozniak chose to never remove himself from the official employee list, and continues to represent the company at events or in interviews
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The Beechcraft Bonanza A36TC which Wozniak was piloting (and not qualified to operate) crashed soon after takeoff from the Sky Park Airport in Scotts Valley, California
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After recovering from the plane crash, Wozniak re-enrolled at UC Berkeley to complete his Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences degree that he started there in 1971 (and which he would finish in 1986)
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"Steve [Jobs] really took over the project when I had a plane crash and wasn't there
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Wozniak offered $10 million of his own stock to early Apple employees, something Jobs refused to do
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Apple went public to instant and significant financial profitability, making Jobs and Wozniak both millionaires
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Awarded Grace Murray Hopper Award (1979).
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Wozniak was awarded the ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award
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As being able to spend more time with his then-wife, Alice Robertson, who belonged to the Order of the Eastern Star, associated with the Masons
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Specifically for use with the Apple II to replace the slower cassette tape storage
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Known as one of the first highly successful mass-produced microcomputers, while Jobs oversaw the development of its foam-molded plastic case and early Apple employee Rod Holt developed its switching power supply
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Jobs and Wozniak formed the Apple Computer Company (now called Apple Inc
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Wozniak began designing and developing the computer that would eventually make him famous, the Apple I
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Wozniak started developing the Apple I into the computer that launched Apple when he and Jobs first began marketing it the following year
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Jobs was working for arcade game company Atari, Inc
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During my college years, while he was in high school
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And would eventually become Apple's first full-time employee
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Studied at University of California, Berkeley (1971).
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Wozniak returned to the San Francisco Bay Area after being expelled from the University of Colorado Boulder in his first year for hacking the university's computer system
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Studied at Homestead High School (1968).
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Born 1950-08-11.
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