Steve Wozniak
speaker
809 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Nov 2025
last heard 21 May
Steve Wozniak’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Steve was in charge of his own learning.
The most important lesson came wrapped in a simple statement.
Engineering, Wozniak's dad told his son, is the highest level of importance you could reach in the world.
Someone who can make electrical devices do something good for people takes society to a new level.
Wozniak absorbed this like gospel.
While other kids had no idea what they wanted to be, Wozniak knew exactly what he wanted to be.
He would be an engineer's engineer, what his dad called a serious engineer.
The neighborhood boys called themselves the electronics kids.
Their fathers worked at Fairchild Semiconductor or other companies sprouting up along the valley.
They had access to transistors when most of America was still using vacuum tubes.
They had spools of telephone wire donated?
by friendly utility workers.
They had fathers who could explain it all at dinner.
Steve became their unofficial leader, painfully shy, zero charisma.
But when the electronics kids decided to build a house-to-house intercom, Steve designed it.
He strung wire along wooden fences, connected their bedrooms.
After dark, they'd signal each other while their parents slept.
But Wozniak wanted more.
He didn't want to build what others had.
He wanted to create what no one else had thought of yet.
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