Steve Wozniak
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809 appearances
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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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At the Bay Area Science Fair, the judges initially gave it only an honorable mention, but when he explained how it worked, everything changed.
The Air Force ended up giving their highest award for electronics to an 8th grader competing against 12th graders.
They even flew him to Travis Air Force Base as a prize.
But Wozniak would later write that his greatest achievement wasn't winning the award, it was developing the patience that engineering requires.
Listen to what he writes here.
Thanks to all those science projects, I acquired a central ability that was to help me through my entire career.
Patience.
I'm serious.
Patience is usually so underrated.
I mean, for all of those projects from third grade all the way to the eighth grade, I just learned things gradually figuring out how to put electronic devices together without so much as cracking a book.
Sometimes I think, man, I lucked out.
It seems like I was just pointed in such a lucky direction in life.
This early learning of how to do things one tiny little step at a time.
I learned not to worry so much about the outcome, but to concentrate on the step I was on and to try to do it as perfectly as I could when I was doing it.
Not everyone gets this in today's engineering community, you know?
Throughout my career at Apple and other places, you always find a lot of geeks who try to reach levels without doing the in-between ones first.
And it won't work.
It never does.
That's just cognitive development.
Plain and simple.
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