DonovanAug 15, 2025
Simone S

Steve Wozniak interviewed for CBS:

"I gave all my Apple wealth away because wealth and power are not what I live for. I have a lot of fun and happiness. I funded a lot of important museums and arts groups [...] I never look for any type of tax dodge. I earn money from my labor and pay something like 55% combined tax on it. Life to me was never about accomplishment, but about Happiness. I developed these philosophies when I was 18-20 years old and I never sold out."

He turned 75 4 days ago.

Aug 15, 2025 at 4:19pmWeb
Show threadAlexanderVIAug 15, 2025
@m2m I wish we were in the Woz timeline rather than the Jobs one
Show threadJiří Fiala Total LandscapingAug 15, 2025
@AlexanderVI @m2m we're in the Cook timeline. We're Cooked.
Show threadJPeckAug 16, 2025
@AlexanderVI @m2m that would be amazing. So jealous of the people in that timeline
Show threadLyonsAug 15, 2025
@m2m is there a link to the interview?
Show threadJ.P. WingAug 15, 2025
@m2m I really enjoy Woz and I'm glad you shared this. I looked up a recent interview online and he just seems like a great human being.
Show threadBlake C. StaceyAug 15, 2025
@m2m I met him at a speakers panel that MIT hosted years and years ago. He was very intensely Yer Friend's Dad, the one who would walk in wearing a sweatervest and asking, "What's this music? It has a nice beat!" But, you know, he meant it.
Show threadVashtiAug 15, 2025
@bstacey milky milky?
Show threadUserName Aged BadlyAug 15, 2025
@m2m
If only there was a way to not rely on every rich person being a good person...
Show threadHowToPhil (Phillip R)Aug 15, 2025
@m2m Continues to be the Superior Steve who is too humble to admit being the best Steve
Show threadF4GRX SébastienAug 15, 2025
@m2m he truly belongs to the hacker crew.
Show threadIrishMASMSAug 16, 2025
@f4grx @m2m yep, even came to defcon in the 2010s
Show threadxs4me2Aug 15, 2025

@m2m

The sort of guys we need…

Show threadbkAug 15, 2025
@m2m
Woz is the real Steve...
Show threadFinitumAug 15, 2025
@knutson_brain @m2m where's Woz' movie? Make it a comedy, ir'd be all good vibes & something aspirationally positive. Maybe the next generation of billionaires would watch it and for moment think "I don't have to be an insufferable sociopath" and we'd all be better for it.
Right now all they've got is Citizen Kane, There Will Be Blood & Jobs. That can't be healthy.
Show threadDamon L. WakesAug 20, 2025
@Finitum @knutson_brain @m2m Are we seriously at the point where we're considering putting on a heavy-handed play to convince Mr. Burns not to let schools and hospitals collapse?
Show threadTammy Garrison, MLISAug 15, 2025
@m2m dude. That’s amazing.
Show threadTmmikeAug 15, 2025
@m2m Also of note, when Apple was going public, some employees were cut out of the process. The Woz gave them shares out of his own account.
Show threadMarcus Marcius MarcellusAug 15, 2025
@Tmmike @m2m I know of two similar cases. (Both Turks! Well; one a Kurd from Turkey.) The man who started Chobani yogurt gave an aggregate 10% of the equity to his employees, based on length of tenure. (This made some employees millionaires.) And the man who started Yemek Sepeti (Food Basket, a delivery service) had Delivery Hero, to which he sold the company, pay his employees a buyout bonus of, on average, $240k. Took a personal tax hit to ensure they wouldn't.
Show threadAnita LewisAug 15, 2025

@m2m

Thank you for this!! Made my day.

Show threadratfactorAug 15, 2025
@m2m Woz!!! Steve Jobs talked himself into a gig at Atari. Then got Wozniak to come in secretly at night to do the actual work (which he did 1000x better than necessary because he's a wizard), and his payment was playing free games on the machines afterward.
Show threadPierotAug 15, 2025
@m2m just keep it so. The world can be saved with people like you ☺️
Show threadDaniel M KarlssonAug 15, 2025
@m2m Woz is the best!
Show threadSteve DallapeAug 15, 2025
@m2m It has always pissed me off that Jobs was worshipped and celebrated the way he was. He never invented anything, never built anything - he was simply a good marketer, a salesman. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but Woz deserves so much more credit and recognition than he gets from the general public. Not that he really cares, though. He's the Steve people should emulate.
Show threadYrjänä Rankka 🌻Aug 15, 2025
@5teverin0 @m2m we indeed have completely fscked up criteria for defining success.
Show threadArthur van der HargAug 16, 2025
@5teverin0 @m2m I think that you don’t do Jobs justice there. Yes, he was a good marketer, but he also had a knack for knowing how technology should work from a user’s perspective. He could not only sell existing stuff, but he also knew what to develop because people would want it. And he knew how to attract excellent people who could implement his ideas and drive them to the limits of their abilities. And yes, he could be an absolute asshole, drive people crazy and hurt them. He was no saint.
Show threadNickAug 15, 2025
@m2m I'm sure I remember being able to ftp or telnet onto Woz's home network in the '90s or 2000s??
Show threadCorentin BaronAug 15, 2025
@m2m I love this guy.
Show threadCrumbeeAug 15, 2025

@m2m

Legend and wizard.

Show threadPhil HaighAug 15, 2025
@m2m respect
Show threadlord pthenq1Aug 15, 2025

"Steve Wozniak, entrevistado por CBS:

"Regalé todo mi patrimonio de Apple porque la riqueza y el poder no son mi objetivo. Disfruto mucho y soy feliz. Financié muchos museos y grupos artísticos importantes [...] Nunca busco evasión fiscal. Gano dinero con mi trabajo y pago alrededor del 55% de impuestos combinados. Para mí, la vida nunca se trató de logros, sino de felicidad. Desarrollé estas filosofías cuando tenía 18 o 20 años y nunca me vendí".

Cumplió 75 años hace 4 días."

@m2m

Show threadWalrus 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿Aug 15, 2025

@m2m

Amazingly, there are two (at least) great Steve Wozniaks. At least one catches fish. Here's the one that never built a great computer.

Show threadDarwin WoodkaAug 15, 2025
@m2m Woz is the best
Show threadnoplasticshowerAug 15, 2025
@m2m the woz!
Show threadMandy MacAug 15, 2025
@m2m
I lost respect for Kathy Griffin when she broke up with him...
Show threadWulfy—Speaker to the machinesAug 15, 2025
@m2m
I saw WAZ on tour in Oz.
He is an old man.
But it was inspiring to be in the same room as him.
A historic figure.
Show threadGeorge Liquor, AmericanAug 15, 2025
@m2m I wish this Steve had had a more tangible and direct influence on our tech culture than that other one did
Show threadVaneshiAug 16, 2025

@liquor_american @m2m

*shrug* To my last breath I will say that ADB is USB's great granddaddy.

Show threadGadgetGavAug 15, 2025
@m2m I hope Tim Fucking Cook watches that interview and thinks about what he’s done.
Show thread🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇮🇱 🐧 🥦Aug 15, 2025
@m2m A free man.
Show threadYour Autistic Life FR/EN/ESAug 15, 2025

@m2m

People should ask themselves, "What would Steve Wozniak do?" and conduct themselves accordingly.

Show threadAnthony, of courseAug 15, 2025
@m2m iWoz is one of the best biographies, too. Highly recommend for anyone who hasn't read it yet
Show threadK_L_CooperAug 15, 2025
@m2m
👍🏼👍🏼👌🏻
Show threadCaptMorganAug 15, 2025
@m2m Steve Wozniak Patron saint of nerds. Is it to early to petition the vatican for his beatification?
Show threadRMS06510Aug 15, 2025
@m2m and he's the only one
Show threadozamidasAug 15, 2025
@m2m mad respect to the lad, wonder if he's using android these days
Show threadJames WhiteAug 16, 2025
@m2m @rick not selling out is easy when you've hit the lottery. Dozens of other companies, doing what Apple was doing, when Apple was doing it, didn't become Apple. Getting lucky as shit and then declaring one's own piety is kind of bullshit.
Show threadLRSep 10, 2025
@jameswhite @m2m @rick if not selling out is easy when you've hit the lottery, why do so few who hit the lottery do it then
Show threadJames WhiteSep 10, 2025
@lritter @m2m @rick goldlust
Show threadcontrasocialAug 16, 2025

@m2m

I'll never understand the hold that Apple branding has on people's psyche's.

Show threadAatheusAug 16, 2025
@m2m I wish that he still came to the local con in San Jose. I don't need a photo or autograph. I just want to give him a hug.
Show threadSearingTruthAug 16, 2025

@m2m

"When each and every one of us is as precious as any other.

That is when we are human."
SearingTruth

Show threadMichael GurskiAug 16, 2025
@m2m really wish I could meet the Woz. He's like, my ideal people. Do it for the joy, the laughs, the smiles. Not for the money.
Show threadofficerripleyAug 17, 2025

@m2m

If Woz and Jobs had never met, Jobs probably would've been an unsatisfied person; Woz would've probably been just fine.

Show threadNick's world 🌎 👨‍🦯 🗽Aug 24, 2025
@courtcan @m2m I'm sure he's not hurting.
Show threadTheSonRisesSep 12, 2025
@m2m