If Steve Woźniak was “only” designed by Apple II, one of the fundamental computers from the early PC era, would still be a computing legend. But after leaving Apple in the mid -1980s, Woźniak helped the Electronic Frontier Foundation to establish, sponsored Children’s Discovery Museum of San Jose, and spent the last four decades in philanthropy, public speaking and establishing a really wild offer of technology companies, for example One focuses on minimizing orbital residues.
What makes him one of the all time, at least in my opinion, that despite decades in the technology industry and access to fabulous wealth, according to all relationships seems to be almost absurdly frigid and a normal guy.
At least as normal as you can be in playing in Segway polo league.
Woźniak has millions of dollars in his name, but he clearly decided to follow a different path than his contemporary technology billionaires, such as Bill Gates or Larry Ellison, who counted billions. And remains such, any, oldschool nerd, which sometimes reads – and even comments –Slashdot. A few days ago (on its 75th birthday, no less), the cart fell into the thread about his ongoing lawsuit against YouTube By online fraudsters who used his similarity, though not to solve the subject of the lawsuit.
One of the commentators rose on the thread to point out that in the 1980s Woźniak sold his apple magazine, which would be worth today worth about the unity of a trillion dollars through my rapid mathematics at the rear-carbonated back. “Smart man. A great engineer. A bad decision. It happens to all of us,” wrote Slashdotter.
Then the cart He jumped out to answerAs noted Author: BlueSky Posts Caresty. And it is definitely he – Woozniak used the same account for Slashdot questions and answers in 2012.
“I gave all my wealth of apples because wealth and power are not what I live for,” wrote Woźniak. “I have a lot of fun and happiness. I financed many crucial groups of museums and art in San Jose, a city of my birth, and they called the street behind me for a good one. The happiest person never concerned achievement, but about happiness, i.e. smiling eyebrows.
He smiles minus wrinkles, venerable. Just try to imagine how Elon Musk writes it on the computer and it means it.
