Steve Wozniak
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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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He started drawing logic gates obsessively, staying up all night, half moons with dots, triangles with circles.
These symbols became his alphabet.
He was obsessed.
He decided to build a machine for the science fair that could never lose at tic-tac-toe.
He programmed it to know every possible move, every possible outcome.
But the night before the science fair, the transistors blew up in smoke.
Wozniak was competitive.
He loved to win, but he also realized something.
The lesson he wrote down, the most important thing is that you've done the learning on your own to figure out how to do it.
He was still proud of it, but for him, it's the engineering, not the glory, that's really important.
The famous physicist Richard Feynman said something similar.
I don't like honors.
I've already got the prize.
The prize is the pleasure of finding the thing out.
The kick in the discovery, the observation that other people use it.
Those are the real things.
By eighth grade, Wozniak built what he called his masterpiece, the Adder Subtractor.
It was the closest thing to a computer he'd ever designed, capable of adding and subtracting numbers up to 1,023 using binary.
The machine used over 100 transistors, 200 diodes, and 200 resistors, all mounted on a one-foot plastic square.
This time, nothing blew up.
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