Uncategorized Wozniak, Waterloo and a little wisdom Shane Schick @ShaneSchick Published: August 17th, 2009Spentthe day going to Waterloo to attend a Communitech breakfast event whereSteve Wozniak of Apple fame discussed his latest venture, Fusion i-o,and recalled some of his glory days. Watch for the full story and videotomorrow on IT World Canada, and in the meantime here are the editedhighlights I captured for the @ComputerWorldCa feed.And yes, I did ask him about “Dancing With The Stars.” You’re going to love to hear this.-SSWoz: Wanted to be associated with change and the future of tech – so joined fusion i-o. #communitechabout 8 hours ago from UberTwitterWoz: Started programming TVs in college. Added to enjoyment of electronics. #communitechabout 8 hours ago from UberTwitterWoz: We’re bringing something better to the world. We have noble ideas. Make people smile more and frown less. #communitechabout 7 hours ago from UberTwitter Woz: Tech gives a feeling of power — “I can do the work of ten servers with one server.” #communitechabout 7 hours ago from UberTwitterWoz: A good product thinks like a human (handwriting on a Newton.) Now we settle for what we have. #communitechabout 7 hours ago from UberTwitter Woz: Great products like art — you know it when you see it. Sense of openness. #communitechabout 7 hours ago from UberTwitterWoz: At HP, calculators had to enter two numbers and then say plus — understood by compscis. #communitechabout 7 hours ago from UberTwitter Woz: TI calculator uses parentheses — worked more like a human. Could type in left to right. #communitechabout 7 hours ago from UberTwitter Woz: Apple III was a flop. Thought they would have a more business-like machine. Forced staff to use them. #communitechabout 7 hours ago from UberTwitterWoz: Everything boils down to a user interface. Very simple, not more chips or power. Less stuff in it. #communitechabout 7 hours ago from UberTwitterWoz: Canada weird to us. We don’t think of you as a country code, we think of you as an area code. #communitechabout 7 hours ago from UberTwitter Woz: I didn’t know if the iPod was going to be the big thing. Took half a day of using it — that was it. #communitechabout 7 hours ago from UberTwitterWoz: Apple’s success came from putting a lot of work into making things obvious to the user. #communitechabout 7 hours ago from UberTwitter Woz: used the word “desktop” to make people comfortable with what they knew. Then the market became networking. #communitechabout 7 hours ago from UberTwitterWoz: After being a network admin, realized how little respect they get. #communitechabout 7 hours ago from UberTwitter Woz: Jobs saw the opp for computers, but HP turned down the iidea five times. “HP would have gotten it wrong.” #communitechabout 7 hours ago from UberTwitterWoz: Took as a good sign that Apple was too busy to work on his floppy drive idea. #communitechabout 7 hours ago from UberTwitter Woz: When you’re an engineer who’s an artist, you want that beauty, even if no one will see it. #communitechabout 7 hours ago from UberTwitterWoz: Fusion i-o drives are built with brains, rather than brute force. #communitechabout 7 hours ago from UberTwitter Would you recommend this article?00 Thanks for taking the time to let us know what you think of this article! We'd love to hear your opinion about this or any other story you read in our publication. Click this link to send me a note →Jim Love, Chief Content Officer, IT World Canada Related Download Sponsor: Carbon60 Moving to the Cloud: Beyond the Myths Get on the road to cloud success by moving past the myths around it. Register Now Uncategorized