Wherever smart people work, doors are unlocked.
Steve WozniakRead
Every dream I've ever had in life has come true ten times over.
Interpretation
Achievements often exceed initial aspirations.
Steve Wozniak's quote reflects the idea that pursuing one's dreams can lead to unexpected and significantly greater successes than originally anticipated. It highlights the importance of ambition and the potential for dreams to evolve and manifest in ways that surpass our expectations.
In practice
In a motivational speech at a school assembly.
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
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.
I have wrestled in almost every tournament in the world. I've won the Olympics, NCAAs, and World Championships, but none of those can truly compare to the feeling I felt when I won my first and only state championship my senior year of high school.
Complexity is the enemy of execution!
I felt very greatly honoured to be given a Damehood and never expected to receive anything else. So for Her Majesty to bestow a further accolade on me is very unexpected and I feel even more honoured.
Never put your money against Cassius Clay, for you will never have a lucky day.
A real businessman or entrepreneur has no enemies. Once he understand this, the sky's the limit.
I feel like I've given up a lot of my fantasies. I just want to do things differently, and to a lot of people that's annoying. I like weird stuff. I always hoped if we had a big success it would be on our own terms.
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