Wherever smart people work, doors are unlocked.
Steve WozniakRead
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.
Interpretation
The quote reflects the idea that initial dreams can evolve into unexpected journeys, often leading to greater accomplishments than originally envisioned.
Steve Wozniak expresses that his initial aspiration was simply to own a computer, not to create a tech company. This highlights how pursuing a passion can lead to unforeseen opportunities and endeavors—sometimes dreams turn into missions that can shape industries without the dreamer fully realizing their potential impact at the outset.
In practice
During a tech conference to inspire young inventors.
Wherever smart people work, doors are unlocked.
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.
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.
Once the automobile appeared you could have predicted that it would destroy as many people as it did.
Instruction tables will have to be made up by mathematicians with computing experience and perhaps a certain puzzle-solving ability. There need be no real danger of it ever becoming a drudge, for any processes that are quite mechanical may be turned over to the machine itself.
If an NSA, FBI, CIA, DIA, etc analyst has access to query raw SIGINT databases, they can enter and get results for anything they want. Phone number, email, user id, cell phone handset id (IMEI), and so on - it's all the same.
Social capital may turn out to be a prerequisite for, rather than a consequence of, effective computer-mediated communication.
The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.
More than anything else, technology will pave the way for innovative change at Starbucks. The bulk of Starbucks' innovation over the next several years will be technology-focused.
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